Houdon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Governors come and go — 14 in the past 52 years — but Brown is as constant as the rotunda’s Houdon statue of George Washington.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2022
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
The first great statue of our first president was the work of a French sculptor, Jean-Antoine Houdon.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011
The bust of the actor Larive in the role of Brutus immortalized in marble by Houdon in 1784 could be a spoof.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2010
“They thought—all but Houdon, who still persists that you have been rich always—they thought that, now that you were rich, you might prefer other society.”
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright
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