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HOUDON, Jean-Antoine

Versailles, Yvelines 1741 - Paris 1828

Joel Barlow (1754-1812)

Joel Barlow (1754-1812)

1803

plaster

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 28 x 19,75 x 11 in.

signed: Houdon / an XII
inscribed: Barlow, 50 ans

Acc. No.: 57-S

Credit Line: Purchased from the American Academy of Fine Arts

Photo credit: scan from 2004 Dearinger, p. 282

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Provenance

  • 1842, Purchased from the American Academy of Fine Arts

Bibliography

  • 2004 Dearinger
    David Bernard Dearinger, Paintings and Sculptures in the collection of the National Academy of Design, Vol 1, 1826-1925, Hudson Hills Press, 2004, p. 282, ill.

Exhibitions

  • 1993 New York
    American Dimensions, New York, National Academy of Design, 1993, n° 16

Comment

  • Houdon modeled this bust at the same time that he was doing Robert Fulton's portrait. The two were exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1804.