Bust of Louise Brongniart

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Bust of Louise Brongniart

Creator

Jean-Antoine Houdon

French Artist · 1741–1828

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Jean-Antoine Houdon studied in Paris under such sculptors as Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. As a winner of the Prix de Rome, he worked in Rome from 1764 to 1768. There he was influenced by ancient artifacts, including those recently unearthed in Herculaneum and Pompeii, and works of Renaissance masters, especially Michelangelo. He created his important anatomical study of a stand

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Date: 19th or early 20th century, before 1928
Medium: Marble
Department: Sculpture
Institution: Getty Museum

The bust derives from a masterpiece of children's portraiture by Jean-Antoine Houdon: the *Bust of Louise Brongniart (1772-1845)* in terracotta created in 1777 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Houdon's busts of Louise and her brother Alexandre, children of the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, were very popular in the 19th and 20th centuries; they were abundantly reproduced.

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