Wonders of sculpture . This question is answered on the spot byHoudon himself, for the bronze bust of JeanJacques Rousseau, wearing the narrow fillet of the FRENCH SCULrTUHE. 3L7 conqueror in the 01)mpic games, is placed nearthat in marble of the Abbe Aubert, and I do notthink that this portrait of the author of Emile is. Fig. 60.—Voltaire, by Hou ion. inferior in beauty of workmanship and truth to thatof the La Fontaine of children. Houdon is however, better represented in the 328 FUENCU SCULP TUBE. Theitre Fran^ais than in his own room in theLouvre. The bust of Moliere, in the lobby, andthe
Wonders of sculpture . This question is answered on the spot byHoudon himself, for the bronze bust of JeanJacques Rousseau, wearing the narrow fillet of the FRENCH SCULrTUHE. 3L7 conqueror in the 01)mpic games, is placed nearthat in marble of the Abbe Aubert, and I do notthink that this portrait of the author of Emile is. Fig. 60.—Voltaire, by Hou ion. inferior in beauty of workmanship and truth to thatof the La Fontaine of children. Houdon is however, better represented in the 328 FUENCU SCULP TUBE. Theitre Fran^ais than in his own room in theLouvre. The bust of Moliere, in the lobby, andthe statue of Voltaire seated, in the vestibule, areexcellent and superior works, which will bear com-parison with any of those by his them Houdon has showed how the ideal may becombined with the real, the quickening spirit ^viththe body it animates. He has in every case givenhis models expression ; an expression as keen asthat of the portraits of Titian and Rembrandt. Ilike to think that the statue of Washington, madeby Houdon for Philadelphia, is equally worthy ofthe virtuous and illustrious founder of Americanindependence, of the greatest public man of moderntimes, on whom Byron pronounces a eulogium atthe end of his Ode to Napoleon : Wliere may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the great ;
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