Framed Dimensions
5.50inch framed width
18.00inch framed height
5.50inch framed depth
(13.97 cm framed width 45.72 cm framed height 13.97 cm framed depth)
Literature:
Jean Antoine Houdon. Born Verailles 1741. Died Paris 1828,
was received as a full member of the Académie Royale in 1777. His great series of portrait busts began in earnest with his exhibits at the Salons of 1775 and 1777 after which Houdon was established as a portrait sculptor without rival. At the Salon of 1779 Houdon inaugurated his impressive gallery of portraits of famous men, modelled both from life and posthumously. This was a theme that he continued up to his last Salon in 1814, and places him firmly within the historicist current of the age of Louis XVI. Houdon's originality lay in creating different bust types of his illustrious subjects. Thus Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert, Franklin, Washington and others were depicted in contemporary costume and hairstyles, but also with their hair dressed in the Roman manner and their shoulders naked or covered with antique drapery. Houdon had won the Académie's third prize for sculpture in 1756 and the Grand Prix (Prix de Rome) in 1761. He subsequently spent three years at the Ecole des Elèves Protégés before leaving for Rome back in 1764.
In a memoir, written in 1794, Houdon summed up his career thus: 'I have given myself over to only two studies, which have filled my whole life … anatomy and the casting of statues'.
Description / Expertise
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION BRONZE FIGURES OF VOLTAIRE AND ROUSSEAU after the works by Jean Antoine Houdon.
Mounted on bronze and Siena marble bases.
Price
gbp 4950.00 (Pound Sterling)
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