Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . Italian Decadence—French Transition the gap which otherwise would be causedby the revolutionary struggle, Houdon andDavid, are still to be mentioned in connec-tion with the last years of the old Antoine Houdon (1740-1828) workedin France, where his portrait statues consti-tute an epoch by themselves—for that ex-traordinary embodiment of despotism, Cath-erine of Russia, and for the state of Virginiafor which he made the most importantstatue of Washington. In France this greatsculptor is best known by the statue of Vol-tai
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . Italian Decadence—French Transition the gap which otherwise would be causedby the revolutionary struggle, Houdon andDavid, are still to be mentioned in connec-tion with the last years of the old Antoine Houdon (1740-1828) workedin France, where his portrait statues consti-tute an epoch by themselves—for that ex-traordinary embodiment of despotism, Cath-erine of Russia, and for the state of Virginiafor which he made the most importantstatue of Washington. In France this greatsculptor is best known by the statue of Vol-taire in the possession of the Theatre Fran-^ais. But if one were to desire an excellentschool of art for young sculptors seeking forstrictness and reserve combined with energy,he would do well to gather delicately madecasts of Houdons draped statues and undraped Diana shown in Plate XXXIIwas rejected by the jury of the Salon of1781 because, as it appears, that particulargoddess should not be represented in a nudestatue. What would the critics of
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