Houdon
Americannoun
noun
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Houdon himself chose it over the Met’s marble version, created not long after, to put on display at the annual Salon exhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
Houdon wormed the truth out of him as easily as if Cartaret had come back carrying the picture under his arm: the young American was too disconsolate to hide his chagrin.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright
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