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Jean-Antoine Houdon Works Online
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Original works by Jean-Antoine Houdon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Robert Fulton, ca.1804
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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 Buffon (1707-1788)
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris Diana, 1790
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris Louise (1772-1845) and Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847)
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Louvre Museum, Paris Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, known as; 1694-1778), writer, 1778
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 22 sculptures
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  Bust of Voltaire, 1778
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Sculpture collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana Comte de Buffon, 1782
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 NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maryland State Archives
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris Une paysanne de Frascati
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City Robert Fulton, 1803
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Diana (with a 360-degree Quicktime view - slow-loading but a nice touch)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Jean-Jacques Rousseau
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Bust of Madame de Grandmenil
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)  Le Fèvre de Caumartin
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Voltaire, 1781
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
U.S. Senate Art Collection John Paul Jones
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Claudine Houdon, ca.1791
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Bust of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Photographs by Lee Sandstead ("The world's most fired-up Art Historian") Portrait Bust of Thomas Jefferson, 1789
Jean-Antoine Houdon at The Art Renewal Center
Jean-Antoine Houdon in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching  George Washington
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Jean-Antoine Houdon at CGFA 
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick 2 large photographs of sculptures by Houdon
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  Statue of Washington
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis 
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Antoine Houdon  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
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"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
 Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
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