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Houdon

American  
[oo-dawn] / uˈdɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Jean Antoine 1741–1828, French sculptor.


Houdon British  
/ udɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Jean Antoine (ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan). 1741–1828, French neoclassical portrait sculptor

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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

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

Seraphin Dieudonné caught Cartaret’s glance imploringly and then shifted, in ineffectual warning, to Houdon.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright