Houdon
Americannoun
noun
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Though Houdon was hardly a household name in America, his bust of Thomas Jefferson and his life-size statue of George Washington shaped how the new country would see its founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
There is so much splendor in the renovated spaces that sometimes forgotten is a statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon of the 18th-century Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Mills’s 1860 equestrian statue of George Washington — its face modeled on the plaster cast by Houdon — was also a hit.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2020
Now the man who would not be king, as rendered by the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, stood on a pedestal beneath the round skylight crowning Virginia’s capitol dome.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2015
Houdon and Cartaret were facing each other, erect, each waiting for the other to make a further move, the former red, the latter white, with anger.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman
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