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Original works by Jean-Antoine Houdon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
2 works by Jean-Antoine Houdon online
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Robert Fulton
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
George Washington
Bust of Voltaire, 1781
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 works by Houdon
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Bust of Marie-Sébastien-Charles-François Fontaine de Biré
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Bust of Louise Brongniart, 1777
Bust of Fontaine de Biré, 1785
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Diana, bronze, 1790
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Louise and Alexandre Brongniart, terracotta, 1777
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Two busts of Voltaire, with wig and bare-headed, 1778
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Buffon
Jean-Antoine Houdon in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
22 sculptures
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Sabine Houdon, portrait bust (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Bust of Voltaire, 1778
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Sculpture collection online
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Jean-Antoine Houdon
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Voltaire, Seated in an Armchair, gilded bronze statue, 1778
Art Fund for UK Museums
Boston Athenaeum
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Bust of a Child
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist
Frick Collection, New York City
Armand-Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil, marble, 1777
Diana the Huntress, terracotta
The Comtesse du Cayla, marble, 1777
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Clay busts of a brother and sister
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Aymard-Jean de Nicolay, Premier President de la Chambre des Comptes
Maryland State Archives
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Une paysanne de Frascati
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Diana (with a 360-degree Quicktime view - slow-loading but a nice touch)
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
John Paul Jones
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Jean-Antoine Houdon online
U.S. Senate Art Collection
John Paul Jones
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Claudine Houdon, ca.1791
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA
Insecula
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
George Washington
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
Statue of Washington
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Antoine Houdon
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artcyclopedia
"Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment"
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