Jean-Antoine Houdon
French artist
Died when: 87 years 117 days (1047 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French: [??~ ?~twan ud?~]; 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.
Houdon's subjects included Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-1809), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–1788), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton (1803–04), and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).
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