Jean-Antoine Houdon
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Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor.
1808 portrait by Rembrandt Peale
The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1804, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
American Bank Note CoIssue of 1890
Bust of Armand Thomas Hue de Miromesnil, 1775, Victoria and Albert Museum
Winter (sculpture)
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Winter is a bronze statue of a young woman cast by 18th century neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1787. Houdon intended the statue to be an allegory of the winter season. This intent is ref
Jean-Antoine Houdon
…showing chest musculature, and as Roman Consul Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus clad in a toga. In the 1780s, Houdon produced two semi-nude sculptures, Winter and Bather. Perceived as bourgeois for his connections to the court of Louis XVI, he fell out of favour during the French Revolution, although he escaped…
Winter MET DP162240
View of the statue's right side
View of the statue's left side
View of the statue from the rear