Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828) - sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon was born March 25, 1741 in Versailles, France. 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).
Jean Antoine Houdon died in Paris on July 15, 1828 and was interred at the Cimetiere de Montparnasse.
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