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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lus lecarquois ! plus de roseaux, plus dentrave ; rien narrete lessor de lasilhouette presque aerienne, rien nalourdit lharmonieux elan de lademarche. The second repetition in bronze of the same subjectis probably that of which Houdon writes in January, 1784, whenhe informs dAngiviller that le samedi 24 Janvier il doit coulerune statue en bronze, afin quil en soit temoin, si son temps le luipermet. 4 It remained in the sculptors hands and did not leavehis studio till after his death, when it went directly to the Louvre.The letters addressed by Raoul-Rochette to M. de Cailleux,Houdons nephew, in which the purchase and removal of thestatue from the Bibliotheque Nationale to the Louvre are discussed,were published 1879,5 and entirely dispose of the doubt which was 1 Journal de Paris, 14 April, 1778. 2 A.N.O.1 1213, quoted by M. Andre Michel, G. B. A., 1889, p. 281. 3 A. de lA. fr., t. vi., p. 235. 4 A.N.O.1 1215, cited by M. Andre Michel, G. B. A., 1889, p. 282. 5 N.A., 1879, p. 269. 132
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Christophe Gluck. By Jean-Antoine Houdon.(Royal Museum, Berlin.) thrown by M. Barbet de Jouy, on the date, 1790, which appears Theon the base of this example.1 Its authenticity as the third and last pjjtfjj^.version of Houdons famous Diana is now established beyond jean- disPute- HoudonAnother matter which has also long been in question—the date and at which Houdon executed his busts of Voltaire—has been settled Claudeby his later biographers.2 It is at present an accepted fact that cioSon *they were produced during Voltaires last visit to Paris. In April,1778, the writer of the Me moires Secrets mentions Houdonsbust of Moliere,3 and adds, il vient dexposer Voltaire. 4 Touch-ing details of the last sitting given at this date—a few weeks beforehis death—by Voltaire to Houdon, then engaged on the fineseated statue for the Francais, are preserved in the report of aspeech by a certain M. Villevielle (probably the marquis de Ville-vielle of the letters5) on the 5th January, 1803, a

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