HOUDON, Jean-Antoine

Versailles, Yvelines 1741 - Paris 1828

George Washington

George Washington

1804, after model c. 1785

bronze (green patination)

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): H. 20 ³⁄₄ in.

Acc. No.: 1932.199

Credit Line: Gift of Isidore Wise

Photo credit: ph. courtesy Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum

www.thewadsworth.org

Provenance

• "Bought from the Direction des Musées nationaux, Palais du Louvre, Paris" (Hartford Courant, June 10, 1932, p. 2)
• 1932, Gift of Isidore Wise (1865-1956) in memory of his wife, Selma Stern Wise (1870-1931) (Isidore Wise was a major Hartford merchant, president of Beth Israel Synagogue, active in Hartford society and politics)

Bibliography

• 1932 Hartford Courant
  "Washington Portrait is Wise's Gift. Merchant Presents Morgan Memorial Copy of Houdon Bust in Memory of Wife", The Hartford Courant, June 10, 1932, p. 2
• 1932 Hartford Courant
  "Washington Bust Goes On Display", The Hartford Courant, June 22, 1932, p. 9

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