Jean-Antoine Houdon
(1741–1828) fransk skulptör
Jean-Antoine Houdon (France, 1741–1828) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a sculptor. By year of birth, Jean-Antoine Houdon belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jean-Antoine Houdon was born in Versailles and died in Paris. Jean-Antoine Houdon trained at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Jean-Antoine Houdon worked in Rome and Paris. Jean-Antoine Houdon became a member of Académie des beaux-arts and Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The awards include Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Pierre Philippe Thomire.
The best-known works include ‘George Washington’, ‘Écorché’, ‘Voltaire assis’, and ‘Winter’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 31 works by Jean-Antoine Houdon with free images. The dated works span the years 1775–1824. Works by Jean-Antoine Houdon are held by several collections, among them Musée Fabre, Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art, Skulpturutställningen vid Louvren, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, Antoine Vestier, Angelica Kauffman, Jean-Michel Moreau, and Reinier Vinkeles.