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ID: 500003939
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003939
 
Record Type: Person
Houdon, Jean-Antoine (French sculptor, 1741-1828)

Note: Houdon studied under Slodtz, Pigalle, and Lemoyne at the ancienne école académique and at the age of twenty won the Prix de Rome. Three years later, Houdon obtained a residency at the Académie de France in Rome, and in Italy, he discovered the newly uncovered works at Herculaneum and Pompeii as well as works of the Renaissance sculptors, especially Michelangelo. A year after his return to Paris in 1768, Houdon was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. In 1771, Houdon became a member of the Académie, presenting his marble 'Morpheus' as his reception piece; Houdon was named professor at the Académie in 1778. Throughout his career, he moved easily between a style of controlled classicism and a baroque dynamism, adapting the treatment to the nature of the subject. His work also displays a rigorous realism, inspired by quattrocentro sculpture and based on in-depth anatomical studies. His sense of classical restraint coupled with an incisive understanding of and ability to depict human character give Houdon's portraits their particular vitality and reflective expression. French sculptor. Comment on works: Sculptor

Names:
Houdon, Jean-Antoine (preferred,V,index)
Jean-Antoine Houdon (V,display)
Houdon, Jean Antoine (V,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Jean Antoine Houdon (V)
Gudon, Zhan Antuan (U)
Cen Houdon, Sculpteur (U)
Houdon (LU,U)
houdon, jean antoine (LU,U)
houdon jean antoine (LU,U)
Le Citoyen Houdon (LU,U)
M. Houdon (LU,U)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
Parisian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
portraitist
teacher
caster
owner

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Versailles (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
Died:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1764-1767  Rome (Roma province, Lazio, Italy) (inhabited place)
active:   Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
apprentice of ....  Lemoyne, Jean Baptiste, the elder  
........................  (French sculptor, ca. 1679-1731) [500115787]
apprentice of ....  Pigalle, Jean Baptiste  
........................  (French sculptor, 1714-1785) [500024799]
member of ....  Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture  
................  (French fine arts academy, 1648-1793) [500115631]
patron was ....  Louis XVI, King of France  
..................  (French king, 1754-1793) [500122357]
patron was ....  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French  
..................  (French emperor, 1769-1821) [500122388]
student of ....  Slodtz, René-Michel  
..................  (French sculptor, 1705-1764) [500028583]
teacher of ....  Browere, John Henri Isaac  
..................  (American painter and sculptor, 1792-1834) [500000180]
teacher of ....  Ruxthiel, Henri Joseph  
..................  (French sculptor, 1775-1837) [500093756]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Houdon, Jean-Antoine (I)

Biographies:
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French artist, 1741-1828) ..... [WCP]
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [BHA]
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [GRLPA]
(French, 1741-1828) ..... [JPGM]
(French artist, 1741-1828) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [AVERY]
(French artist, 1741-1828) ..... [PROV]
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1741-1828) ..... [GRL]
(French owner, 1741-1828) ..... [PROV]
(French artist) ..... [PROV]
(French sculptor, 1741-1828) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Cen Houdon, Sculpteur ........ [PROV]
...........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Gudon, Zhan Antuan ........ [GRL]
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79008240
Houdon ........ [PROV]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Houdon, Jean Antoine ........ [GRL Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.........................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
.........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79008240
.........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 39965
.........................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Houdon, Jean-Antoine ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, JPGM Preferred, PROV Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...........................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...........................................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
...........................................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
...........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
...........................................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
houdon, jean antoine ........ [PROV]
......................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
houdon jean antoine ........ [PROV]
....................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Jean-Antoine Houdon ........ [PROV, VP]
.........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.........................................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
.........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Jean Antoine Houdon ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Le Citoyen Houdon ........ [PROV]
...................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
M. Houdon ........ [PROV]
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, JPGM, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006)
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79008240
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
....................  Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel (1982)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79008240
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 39965
....................  Sauerländer, Versuch über die Gesichter Houdons (2000)
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (2002-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q318741
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 8 March 2005
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.......... Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (2002-)
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