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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
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
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
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
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
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
Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Voltaire, Seated in an Armchair, gilded bronze statue, 1778
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Comte de Buffon, 1782
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
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Clay busts of a brother and sister
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Aymard-Jean de Nicolay, Premier President de la Chambre des Comptes
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maryland State Archives
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Une paysanne de Frascati
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, 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
National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
2 works by Jean-Antoine Houdon online
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Voltaire, 1781
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
U.S. Senate Art Collection
John Paul Jones
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Claudine Houdon, ca.1791
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA
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)
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
Statue of Washington
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
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