French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900)
Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 275
123. 6 Musee des Monumens Francais, t. v., pp. 49, 158, 160. Amongst other lesswell known works by Houdon may be cited his bust of Minerva in the Courtof the Institut, the image of which appears on the paper and publications of thatbody ; the statue of Henri IV. in the garden of the Palais Royal,… … with his bust of Franklin himself.1 Unwilling to undertake the Thework from portraits, Houdon at once asked for leave to visit pJ5a1}fe?fAmerica.2 With like zeal, hearing of Rousseaus death in 1778, jean-Houdon had at once gone off to Ermenonville, and had taken the Antoinemask of the dead with his…
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