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Jean-Antoine Houdon

1741 - 1828

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Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Antoine Houdon has received more than 219,997 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jean-Antoine Houdon is the 33rd most popular sculptor (down from 28th in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from France (down from 928th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Sculptor.

Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French sculptor who is most famous for his sculptures of George Washington and Voltaire.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 33 out of 258. Before him are Gustav Vigeland, Leochares, Rosa Bonheur, Antoine Bourdelle, Andrea della Robbia, and Claus Sluter. After him are Jacopo della Quercia, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko, Jean Tinguely, Louise Bourgeois, and Ivan Meštrović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 10. Before him are Henry Fuseli, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Peter Simon Pallas, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Andrea Luchesi, and Benedict Arnold. After him are André Grétry, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Emperor Momozono, Nicolas Chamfort, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, and Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1828, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 8. Before him are Francisco Goya, Shaka, Maria Feodorovna, Victor of Aveyron, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Franz Joseph Gall. After him are Kobayashi Issa, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Carl Peter Thunberg, Charlotte, Princess Royal, and William Hyde Wollaston.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 965 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Papin (1963), Childebert III (678), Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), and Karim Benzema (1987). After him are Laura de Noves (1310), Thierry Henry (1977), Jules de Polignac (1780), Jacques Demy (1931), Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438), and Christina of Lorraine (1565).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Jean-Antoine Houdon ranks 9. Before him are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), and Antoine Bourdelle (1861). After him are Louise Bourgeois (1911), François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), François Girardon (1628), and David d'Angers (1788).

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