George Washington
1786/1793
Medium
plaster
Dimensions
overall: 52.6 x 31.5 x 26.3 cm (20 11/16 x 12 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.199.1
About the Artist
Jean-Antoine Houdon · 1741–1828
Houdon studied under Slodtz, Pigalle, and Lemoyne at the ancienne école académique and at the age of twenty won the Prix de Rome. Three years later, Houdon obtained a residency at the Académie de France in Rome, and in Italy, he discovered the newly uncovered works at Herculaneum and Pompeii as well as works of the Renaissance sculptors, especially Michelangelo. A year after his return to Paris in...