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Wonders of sculpture (1873)

Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 360

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This question is answered on the spot byHoudon himself, for the bronze bust of JeanJacques Rousseau, wearing the narrow fillet of the FRENCH SCULrTUHE. 3L7 conqueror in the 01)mpic games, is placed nearthat in marble of the Abbe Aubert, and I do notthink that this portrait of the author of Emile is … Fig. 60.—Voltaire, by Hou ion. inferior in beauty of workmanship and truth to thatof the La Fontaine of children. Houdon is however, better represented in the 328 FUENCU SCULP TUBE. Theitre Fran^ais than in his own room in theLouvre. The bust of Moliere, in the lobby, andthe statue of Voltaire…

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