He established his reputation in Rome with his marble statue of St. Bruno in the Santa Maria degli Angeli, and cemented it with his anatomical study of a standing man, Écorché.
He established his reputation in Rome with his marble statue of St. Bruno in the Santa Maria degli Angeli, and cemented it with his anatomical study of a standing man, Écorché. In 1785, he hurried across the Atlantic, commissioned to sculpt a marble statue of Washington, and his most famous mythological work is his 1777 Diana. He is better known, however, for busts of such famous personages as Mirabeau, Necker, Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. For ten points, name this sculptor of four busts of Voltaire.
He established his reputation in Rome with his marble statue of St. Bruno in the Santa Maria degli Angeli, and cemented it with his anatomical study of a standing man, Écorché.
Jean-Antoine {Houdon}