Jean-Antoine Houdon

Jean-Antoine Houdon
1808 portrait by Rembrandt Peale
Born	(1741-03-20)20 March 1741 Versailles, France
Died	15 July 1828(1828-07-15) (aged 87) Paris, France
Education	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Known for	Portrait sculpture
Spouse	Marie-Ange-Cecile Langlois
Awards	Prix de Rome

Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃];^[1] 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).