A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . L DE VOGUi;. In Dijon, Bur-gimdy. A beautiful city house of the sixteenthcentury, with two admirable facades, one on thecourt of entrance and the other on the Grand de Borne in 17G1 at the age oftwenty. During his stay in Rome he madethe famous statue of S. Bruno in the ]iortieo ofthe church of S. ]\Iaria degli Angeli. Houdonsbest work is in portraiture. Of his portraitstatues, perhaps the most important is the su-perb Voltaire of the Theatre-francais, was his own bronze founde
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . L DE VOGUi;. In Dijon, Bur-gimdy. A beautiful city house of the sixteenthcentury, with two admirable facades, one on thecourt of entrance and the other on the Grand de Borne in 17G1 at the age oftwenty. During his stay in Rome he madethe famous statue of S. Bruno in the ]iortieo ofthe church of S. ]\Iaria degli Angeli. Houdonsbest work is in portraiture. Of his portraitstatues, perhaps the most important is the su-perb Voltaire of the Theatre-francais, was his own bronze founder, and waswithout a rival in that art. In he visitedAmerica with Franklin, and made the statue ofWashington at the capitol in Richmond, Vir-ginia. De Montaislon et Duplessis, Houdon, in PevueUniverselle des Arts, Vol. I. ; Gonse, ScnlplnreFrancaise ; Benoit, VArt francais sous la Berolu-tion et rEmpire. HOUSE. A dwelling ; the term being usu-ally restricted to those dwellings which havesome elaboration; excluding Cabin, Cot, Cot-tage in its original sense, Hut, Iglu, Shack,420. Hotel de Cluny, Paris.
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