Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Bust of Jefferson by Houdon Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 25, 1741 - July 15, 1828) was a French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon was born in Versailles. As a sculptor, he became famous for his busts and statues of the great thinkers and doers of the time, including those of Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Napoleon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), and George Washington (1788). Jean Antoine Houdon died in Paris and was interred at the Cimetiere de Montparnasse. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.