Word: houdon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artistically, the most important Rush statue in this week's show was the George Washington borrowed from Independence Hall, which can hold its own with any Houdon. Interesting are a number of large anatomical models carved from wood for the University of Pennsylvania more than a century ago, so accurate that they are still used in lectures to medical students...
Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...
...Houdon's marble bust of Voltaire, lent by the Comedie Franchise. ¶Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...
...Charles Willson Peale is responsible for about 67 portraits and miniatures of 14 general types; Raphaelle Peale, his eldest son, at least two: Rembrandt Peale, his second son, six; James Peale, his younger brother, II; Charles Peale Polk, his nephew, numerous copies. John Trumbull and Edward Savage, eleven each; Houdon, seven statues; Gilbert Stuart, 16 paintings of the Vaughan type with head turned left, about four or five each of the Lansdowne and Monro-Lenox type with head and eyes turned right and more than 70 variations of the famed Athenaeum Head with face turned right and eyes straight ahead...
...citizen who knows the Father of His Country in all the new Washington Bicentennials. The Post Office Department has gone to some pains to obtain obscure likenesses. Of the issue, which ranges from 2¢ to 10¢, there are four Charles Wilson Peales, two John Trumbulls, a reproduction of the Houdon bust, the famed Gilbert Stuart ($1 bill) Athenaeum portrait, the New York Historical Society's anonymous portrait, a crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. F. Saint-Memin, a portrait by William Williams...