Houdon
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
There are some verses, little known, in praise of the Loire, as it comes through Touraine, written by Houdon des Landes, who lived near Tours in the eighteenth century.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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