Exceptionelle II
Lot 242:
Description
Keywords: Neoclassical sculpture, French art, historical bust, terracotta portrait, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Juliette Récamier, classical art revival, decorative arts, 19th-century sculpture, European sculpture, art replica, historical figure, museum quality replica, antique replica
Jean-Antoine Houdon’s (after) neoclassical work terracotta bust captures Juliette Récamier. Prominent in France during the Enlightenment period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Jean-Antoine Houdon was a neo-classical sculptor, especially noted for his marble portrait busts and statues. His subjects included Americans Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Fulton, and among his French subjects were Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Louis XVI and Napoléon Bonaparte.
For King Louis, he did numerous statues for the gardens of Versailles. Houdon was a continuous exhibitor at the French Salon.
Measurements: 24 1/2 x 14 x 8 in. (62.2 x 35.6 x 20.3 cm.) approx
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