Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)
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Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) was the premiere French sculptor of the Enlightenment period. He was able to incorporate the new ideas of the Enlightenment into his art, thereby reflecting the period and culture of the Enlightenment, a period when reason was seen as the road to truth and progress. The work of art under consideration here is HoudonÆs 1789 marble bust of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, the third President of the new republic of the United States, was an early American hero whose vision expressed much of the philosophy of the Enlightenment period, a time of revolutionary political and social change in France and America. In America, the Enlightenment was represented by the political concepts of the American Revolution and the precepts of leaders like Jefferson. Houdon was ôsympathetic to the principles of freedom and equality that lay behind the American Revolution.ö HoudonÆs depiction of American Forefathers established their likeness for prosperity (Getty exhibition). The Enlightenment era was one of thought and philosophy, and a
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