03052_Huntington_Houdon_24_9
John Paul Jones (1747-1792)
John Paul Jones (1747-1792)
cast in 1921 after an original of 1781
bronze cast by Roman Bronze Works, Inc., NY
bust
Dimensions (HxWxD): including socle: 27 x 18 x 12 in.
Acc. No.: 24.9
Credit Line: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Photo credit: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domainProvenance
- 1921, presented to Herbert Adams, president of the National Academy of Design
- given to Louis E. Shipman
- New York, Anderson Galleries
- 1924, acquired by Henry E. Huntington
Bibliography
- 2008 Bennett and Sargentson
French Art of the Eighteenth Century at The Huntington, Edited by Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, p. 491, cat. 188, entry by Carolyn Miner
Related works
- Miner in 2008 Bennett and Sargentson:
This bronze was cast in 1921 for the National Academy of Design. The bronze was reproduced from a plaster in the Academy's collection, believed to be by Houdon's workshop and to have originally belonged to Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), who purchased it in France while serving as the American ambassador.
The original bust of John Paul Jones was commissioned from Houdon by the American Masonic Lodge de Neuf Soeurs in 1780.