Jean Antoine Houdon (20th Mar, 1741 - 20th Jul, 1828)

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), compositeur

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

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Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

Credit:

Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert

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About the artwork

Title:

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), compositeur

Periods:

18th century

modern age

Techniques:

patiné

sculpture (technique)

plaster

Dimensions:

760 x 446

Inventory number:

RF1910

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Jean Antoine Houdon

Born:

20th Mar, 1741

Dead:

20th Jul, 1828

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Jean-Antoine Houdon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃n‿ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]) (25 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. Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785–88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803–04, and… Read more...