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
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 portico will also feature movable pedestals on which to display the Frick’s collection of sculptures, including works like “Diana the Huntress,” by Jean-Antoine Houdon, which is currently in storage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2010
In the Place Pigalle, General Susbielle gave the order to charge the crowd collected in the Rue Houdon, but the chasseurs, intimidated, spurred back their horses and were laughed at.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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