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Jean Antoine Houdon
(20th Mar, 1741 - 20th Jul, 1828)
Le duc César-Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin (1712-1785), diplomate et ministre
1781
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Martine Beck-Coppola
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
portrait of a man
modern costume
bust on pedestal
Praslin, César-Gabriel de Choiseul (1712-1785)
ambassador
duke
diplomat
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About the artwork
Title:
Le duc César-Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin (1712-1785), diplomate et ministre
Periods:
18th century
modern age
Techniques:
sculpture (technique)
white marble
Dimensions:
660 x 500
Inventory number:
RF2616
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…
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