Houdon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Not Madame; not Seraphin or Houdon: they were ardent Parisians and of course knew no language but their own.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman
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