Jean-Antoine Houdon当时的生活
完整生平1776 · 工作地
Paris
1777年7月26日 · 入会
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
1778
Becomes a professor at the Academy
He is appointed professor of the sculpture class at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
1778
Joins the Masonic lodge “Les Neuf Sœurs”
He joins the lodge Les Neuf Sœurs, where he later meets Benjamin Franklin and Admiral John Paul Jones.
31 May 1778
Takes casts of the dead Voltaire’s face
The day after Voltaire’s death (30 May 1778) he takes plaster casts of the philosopher’s face and hands. These casts and his earlier work from life become the basis of several portraits of Voltaire.
