George Washington was warrior, statesman, sportsman, gentleman. Yet few pictures or statues of him suggest more than one side of his nature. In Artist Gilbert Stuart’s famed portrait he is a gracious, ...
(Upper left:) (artist's monogram O with shamrock and year 1880) (Lower edge of relief:) FROM THE HOUDON LIFE CAST OF WASHINGTON signed The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part ...
In the fall of 1785, the great French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) crossed the Atlantic to take a likeness, along with the necessary measurements, for a life-size marble statue of George ...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has received the gift of a life-sized plaster sculpture of French thinker Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon. Houdon, widely considered Europe’s finest 18th century ...
nepalnepal — Art lovers looking for a way to mark U.S. Independence Day may want to consider a rare bust of George Washington being auctioned by Sotheby’s in London. But this is not a July 4 ...
The French 18th-century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon lived in both the bloodiest and most forward-thinking of times. Considered the greatest sculptor of the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, Houdon ...