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Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828

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Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects included Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-1809), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–1788), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton (1803–04), and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Antoine Houdon is the 42nd most popular sculptor (down from 33rd in 2019), the 1,247th most popular biography from France (down from 965th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Sculptor.

Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French sculptor who is most famous for his sculptures of George Washington and Voltaire.

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Among sculptors, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 42 out of 258. Before him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Paul Landowski, Jacopo della Quercia, Eva Hesse, César Manrique, and Eduardo Chillida. After him are Claes Oldenburg, Veit Stoss, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ivan Meštrović, Vera Mukhina, and Paeonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 14. Before him are Emperor Momozono, Benedict Arnold, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Andrea Luchesi, and Nicolas Chamfort. After him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Augustin Barruel, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Arthur Young, and Pierre Pigneau de Behaine. Among people deceased in 1828, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 13. Before him are Victor of Aveyron, Maria Feodorovna, Kobayashi Issa, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, and William Hyde Wollaston. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Radama I, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Sineperver Sultan, and Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 1,247 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean de Dunois (1402), Jacques Ibert (1890), Camille Jordan (1838), Michel Tournier (1924), Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil (1831), and Emmanuel Chabrier (1841). After him are Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955), Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334), Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), Odo of Bayeux (1036), Samy Naceri (1961), and Charles Trenet (1913).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 10. Before him are Louise Bourgeois (1911), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), and Paul Landowski (1875). After him are François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), David d'Angers (1788), François Girardon (1628), and Antoine Coysevox (1640).

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