Houdon

President elect George Washington was sculpted by Houdon in the late 18th century with a button missing from his waistcoat.

Houdon then returned to France and proceeded to carve a Carrara marble statue of his subject.

The head of Washington, in profile from Houdon's bust, placed on a plain tablet.

That is the quality you get in really good statuary—in Houdon, for instance, or in that triumph the archaic Archer in the Louvre.

Doctor Franklin was setting out to America, and Houdon, the statuary, expressed a willingness to go with him.

Houdon the sculptor molded her foot, and the great painters vied for the privilege of decorating the walls of her hotel.