HOUDON, Jean-Antoine

Versailles, Yvelines 1741 - Paris 1828

Information given by Tamara Préaud, honorary archivist at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, June 19, 2013: edition by Sèvres starting from 1908.

Maker: Sèvres, Manufacture nationale de

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

20th c. edition after a 1789 model

porcelain (biscuit de Sèvres)

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 21 x 12 in.

Acc. No.: 1925.474

Credit Line: Gift of the French Government

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor

legionofhonor.famsf.org

Provenance

• 1925, Gift of the French Government for the opening of the Museum

Bibliography

• vers 1930 Lechevallier-Chevignard
  Lechevallier-Chevignard, La sculpture à Sèvres jusqu'en 1815, [Sèvres, Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, vers 1930], tome I, n° 374, pl. 50 (pas de date indiquée)
• 2003 Poulet
  Anne L. Poulet, "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)", in cat. exp. Houdon, 1741-1828, Sculpteur des Lumières, Washington, Los Angeles, Versailles, 2003-2004, p. 279-283

Related works

• Marble by Houdon, dated 1789, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.

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