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Article: Houdon. (Current and Coming).(Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
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- The Magazine Antiques
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- May 1, 2003
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The French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon, who Thomas Jefferson thought was "unrivaled in Europe," is still considered to have been the finest sculptor in Europe during the Enlightenment. Yet until now there has not been an international exhibition devoted to this remarkable artist. A traveling exhibition entitled Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment opens on May 4 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it remains on view until September 7. It then travels to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and finally to the Musee national du chateau de Versailles. The show comprises more than sixty of Houdson's finest works in marble, plaster, ...
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