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Jean Antoine Houdon
(20th Mar, 1741 - 20th Jul, 1828)
Morphée
1777
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Gérard Blot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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About the artwork
Title:
Morphée
Periods:
18th century
modern age
Techniques:
white marble
sculpture (technique)
Dimensions:
365 x 705
Inventory number:
RF3993
Detail:
Fils d'Hypnos, frère de Thanatos. Morceau de réception à l'académie royale de Peinture et sculptures
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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