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See also:HOUDON, See also:JEAN See also:ANTOINE (1740—1828) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the 18th of See also:March 1740. At the See also:age of twelve he entered the Ecole royale de See also:Sculpture, and at twenty, having learnt all that he could from See also:Michel Ange See also:Slodtz and See also:Pigalle, he carried off the prix de See also:Rome and See also:left See also:France for See also:Italy, where he spent the next ten years of his See also:life. His brilliant See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, which seems to have been formed by the See also:influence of that See also:world of statues with which See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. peopled the gardens of Versailles rather than by the lessons of his masters, delighted See also:Pope See also:Clement XIV., who, on seeing the St See also:Bruno executed by Houdon for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Maria degli Angeli, said " he would speak, were it not that the rules of his See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order impose silence." In Italy Houdon had lived in the presence of that second See also:Renaissance with which the name of See also:Winckelmann is associated, and the See also:direct and See also:simple treatment of the See also:Morpheus which he sent to the See also:Salon of 1771 See also:bore See also:witness to its influence. This See also:work procured him his " agregation " to the See also:Academy of See also:Painting and Sculpture, of which he was made a full member in 1775. Between these See also:dates Houdon had not been idle; busts of
Catharine II., See also:Diderot and See also:Prince Galitzin were remarked at the Salon of 1773, and at that of 1795 he produced, not only his Morpheus in See also:marble, but busts of See also:Turgot, See also:Gluck (in which the marks of small-pox in the See also:face were reproduced with striking effect) and Sophie See also:Arnould as See also:Iphigeneia (now in the See also:Wallace Collection, See also:London), together with his well-known marble See also:relief, " Grive suspendue See also:par See also:les pattes." He took also an active See also:part in the teaching of the academy, and executed for the instruction of his pupils the celebrated Ecorche still in use. To every Salon Houdon was a See also:chief contributor; most of the leading men of the See also:day were his sitters; his busts of d'See also:Alembert, Prince See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry of See also:Prussia, Gerbier, See also:Buffon (for Catharine of See also:Russia) and Mira-beau are remarkable portraits; and in 1778, when the See also:news of See also:Rousseau's See also:death reached him, Houdon started at once for Ermenonville, and there took a See also:cast of the dead See also:man's face, from which he produced the See also:grand and life-like See also:head now in the Louvre. In 1779 his bust of See also:Moliere, at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais, won universal praise, and the celebrated draped statue of See also:Voltaire, in the See also:vestibule of the same theatre, was exhibited at the Salon of 1781, to which Houdon also sent a statue of See also:Marshal de See also:Tourville, commissioned by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and the See also:Diana executed for Catharine II. This work was refused; the See also:jury alleged that a statue of Diana demanded drapery; without drapery, they said, the goddess became a " suivante de See also:Venus," and not even the proud and See also:frank chastity of the attitude and expression could See also:save the Diana of Houdon (a See also:bronze See also:reproduction of which is in the Louvre) from insult. Three years later he went to See also:America, there to carry out a statue of See also:Washington. With See also:Franklin, whose bust he had recently executed, Houdon left France in 1785, and, staying some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time with Washington at See also:Mount See also:Vernon, he modelled the bust, with which he decided to go back to See also:Paris, there to See also:complete the statue destined for the capitol of the See also:State of See also:Virginia. After his return to his native See also:country Houdon executed for the king of Prussia, as a See also:companion to a statue of Summer, La Frileuse, a See also:nail embodiment of shivering See also:cold, which is one of his best as well as one of his best-known See also:works. The Revolution interrupted the busy flow of commissions, and Houdon took up a See also:half-forgotten project for a statue of St Scholastica. He was immediately denounced to the See also:convention, and his life was only saved by his instant and ingenious See also:adaptation of St Scholastica into an embodiment of See also:Philosophy. Under See also:Napoleon, of whom in 1806 he made a nude statue now at See also:Dijon, Houdon received little employment; he was, however, commissioned to execute the See also:colossal reliefs intended for the decoration of the See also:column of the " Grand See also:Army " at See also:Boulogne (which ultimately found a different destination); he also produced a statue of See also:Cicero for the See also:senate, and various busts, amongst which may be cited those of Marshal See also:Ney, of See also:Josephine and of Napoleon himself, by whom Houdon was rewarded with the See also:legion of See also:honour. He died at Paris on the 16th of See also:July 1828.
See memoir by Emile Delerot and Arsene Legrelle in Memoires de la societe See also:des sciences morales . . de See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, iv. 49 et seq. (1857); Anatole de Montaiglon and Georges Duplessis in Revue universelle des arts, i. and ii. (1855–1856); See also:Hermann Dierks, Houdons Leben and Werke (See also:Gotha, 1887); See also:Albert Terrade, Autour de la statue de Jean Houdon (Versailles, 1892); P. E. Mangeant, Sur une statuette de Voltaire par J. Houdon (Paris, 1896).
End of Article: HOUDON, JEAN ANTOINE (1740—1828)
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