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

Le Fèvre de Caumartin

1779

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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda

palais des beaux-arts de Lille

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bust on pedestal

portrait of a man

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About the artwork

Title:

Le Fèvre de Caumartin

Periods:

XVIIIth century

Techniques:

Dimensions:

780 x 550

Inventory number:

Inv.D.67-14

Detail:

Antoine-Louis-François Le Fèvre de Caumartin (1725-1803)

Location:

palais des beaux-arts de Lille

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...