Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) was born in Versailles and, after several years of study in Rome, worked mainly in Paris.
He was the great portrait sculptor of the Enlightenment, famous for lifelike busts of Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
In 1785 he crossed the Atlantic and stayed at Mount Vernon to model George Washington from life.
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