Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)

"Jean-Antoine Houdon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃n‿ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]) (25 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 (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, (1803–04), and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806)." - (en.wikipedia.org 27.10.2019)

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Created Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)

Was depicted (Actor) Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (

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Was depicted (Actor) Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823-1883) (

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Was depicted (Actor) Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756-1808) (

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Was depicted (Actor) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) (

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[Relation to person or institution] Louis Günther II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1708-1790) (

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[Relation to person or institution] Princess Auguste Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1752-1805) (

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