Jean-Antoine Houdon

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French person Neoclassical artist human portrait sculptor sculptor

Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → Neoclassical artist → human → portrait sculptor → sculptor →
awardReceived	Prix de Rome →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1741-03-20 →
dateOfDeath	1828-07-15 →
educatedAt	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture → École royale des élèves protégés →
ethnicGroup	French →
familyName	Houdon →
fieldOfWork	sculpture →
fullName	Jean-Antoine Houdon →
genre	portrait sculpture →
givenName	Jean-Antoine →
influencedBy	Enlightenment ideals → classical sculpture →
knownFor	lifelike representations of Enlightenment figures → realistic portrait busts →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	Neoclassicism →
notableWork	Bust of Benjamin Franklin → Bust of Buffon → Bust of Cincinnatus (George Washington as Cincinnatus) → Bust of Condorcet → Bust of Denis Diderot → Bust of George Washington → Bust of Helvétius → Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Bust of John Paul Jones → Bust of La Fayette → Bust of Louis XVI → Bust of Madame Houdon → Bust of Marie Antoinette → Bust of Mirabeau → Bust of Molière → Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte → Bust of Prince Henry of Prussia → Bust of Robert Fulton → Bust of Sophie Arnould → Bust of Turgot → Bust of Voltaire → Diana the Huntress → Seated Voltaire → Statue of George Washington (Richmond, Virginia) → Winter (La Frileuse) →
periodOfActivity	18th century → early 19th century →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of France → Versailles →
placeOfDeath	France → Paris →
residence	Paris → Rome →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jean-Antoine Houdon →	fullName
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	hadMember