The 1781 life-size marble statue of this French writer is one of Jean Antoine Houdon's most famous works
.... Jean 
Antoine Houdon 5 and encouragement to the boy, hardly more than ten or .... as 
the one to win his reception into the Academy through a life-size model in plaster, 
..... 1 in marble on which we have no special information, we find a notable bust 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Monsieur Houdon's - Metropolitan Museum of Art [PAR] The composition is one that Houdon developed and refined over a period of ... 
We first learn of it from the records of the sculptor himself, who noted that in 1781 
he ... Houdon then proceeded to make life-size marble figures of the Frileuse and 
... 2.