Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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is bust (marble)—which is one of the ornaments of the Pavilion Allemand at the Paris Exhibition—also bears the inscription, Houdon F. annee 1778, whichsuggests that Houdon continued to repeat examples of the original work as long asthere was any demand for it. See note 5, p. 132. 4 Desnoiresterres, Iconographie Voltairienne, pp. 117, 118. Ex. Salon, 1779. 5 The obligation to furnish these petits modeles for Sevres was imposed in 1782.Guiffrey, Expositions du XVIII Siecle, pp. 108, 119, 121, 123. 6 Musee des Monumens Francais, t. v., pp. 49, 158, 160. Amongst other lesswell known works by Houdon may be cited his bust of Minerva in the Courtof the Institut, the image of which appears on the paper and publications of thatbody ; the statue of Henri IV. in the garden of the Palais Royal, and the terra-cottabust of Palissot in the Salle de la Mazarine. In. gen. Mon. civ. Paris, t. i., pp. 6, in, 3H- !34 Voltaikk. By Hovdon.(Property of the Theatre Francais, nmv sheltered in the Louvre.)
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with his bust of Franklin himself.1 Unwilling to undertake the Thework from portraits, Houdon at once asked for leave to visit pJ5a1)fe?fAmerica.2 With like zeal, hearing of Rousseaus death in 1778, jean-Houdon had at once gone off to Ermenonville, and had taken the Antoinemask of the dead with his own hands,—a pious care to which we an^u onowe the magnificent bust in the Louvre, and the even more in- Claudeteresting terra-cotta of the Bibliotheque de lEcole des Beaux Arts, ^fj-?-**in connection with which may be mentioned the small model be-longing to M. Jacques Doucet, so fine is it in style.3 Sailing from Havre with Franklin on the 22nd July, 1785, andhaving arrived in Philadelphia on the 14th September, Houdonwent out to Mount Vernon, spent a fortnight there with Washing-ton, completed his notes and returned immediately to France.From a letter of Jeffersons we learn that he was already at work,in Paris, on 4th January, 1786. The terms on which the workhad been undertaken were, f

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