Memoirs of the life and works of Jean Antoine Houdon : the sculptor of Voltaire and of Washington . The latter began life as aminiature-painter, a fact as generally forgotten or unknown as thatMorse of electric telegraph fame began his career in the same the age of twenty-one he went abroad to study and pursue art,but was soon diverted to mechanics, and in a few years engaged inthe improvement of the canal navigation of Great Britain, a treatiseupon which he subsequently published. In 1794 he went to Parisand became a member of the family of Joel Barlow, where hepainted a panorama, the
Memoirs of the life and works of Jean Antoine Houdon : the sculptor of Voltaire and of Washington . The latter began life as aminiature-painter, a fact as generally forgotten or unknown as thatMorse of electric telegraph fame began his career in the same the age of twenty-one he went abroad to study and pursue art,but was soon diverted to mechanics, and in a few years engaged inthe improvement of the canal navigation of Great Britain, a treatiseupon which he subsequently published. In 1794 he went to Parisand became a member of the family of Joel Barlow, where hepainted a panorama, the first ever shown in the French capital. InParis, under the auspices of the French government, he also madeexperiments on the Seine with submarine navigation to be used intorpedo warfare, but, owing to some differences, left France andwent back to England, in 1804. I* must therefore have been towardthe close of his sojourn in France, that Houdon modeled his bust ofFulton, as it is inscribed houdon An xii R. Fulton 38 ans, whichshows it to have been done before September 22, 1803, and it was in. MOIBIEIRT IFKTJLTdW Jean Antoine Houdon 263 the Salon of August, 1804, in marble. A plaster cast belonging tothe French government, originally in the Versailles Museum, hasbeen transferred recently to the Musee de Marine, and the castfrom which our reproduction is made belongs to the NationalAcademy of Design, New York. The marble is unknown. Doubtless it was about the same time that Houdon modeled theFulton bust he modeled his bust of Joel Barlow, a marble of whichwas also in the Salon of 1804, probably the one now owned by agreat-grandnephew of Barlow, Mr. H. P. Chambers of Washing-ton, Pa. One in plaster belongs to the Pennsylvania Academy of theFine Arts, and another to the National Academy of Design, NewYork. President Madison had one in marble, but its present where-abouts cannot be traced. As may be seen, Barlow is transformed byHoudon from an American citizen into a French citoyen
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