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Houdon Jean Antoine
(1741—1828)

Jean-Antoine Houdon was born in Versailles. As a sculptor, he became famous for his busts and statues of the great thinkers and doers of the time, including those of Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Napoleon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), and George Washington (1788). The statue of... More...

France, 1978, Voltaire and Rousseau

Monaco, 1994, Three Portraits of Voltaire

Mozambique, 2012, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot

USSR, 1966, Sitting Voltaire

France, 2002, Bust of Voltaire in Ferney-Voltaire