HOUDON, JEAN ANTOINE (French). Anoted French Sculptor, born at Versailles, about 1741 ; died at Paris, July 16, 1828. " He won the prix de Rome at the age of nineteen, and remained in Italy ten years during the period of Winckelmann and the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. While in Rome, he made the famous statue of St. Bruno at Sainte-Marie-des-Anges. On his return to France he exhibited in the Salon of 177 1 a statuette of Morphee which secured his admission to the Academy of France, and soon after he made his famous " Ecorché ", reduced copies of which are well known in the art-schools. He visited America with Franklin and resided with Washington at Philadelphia, where he modelled a bust from which he afterwards made his Richmond statue. In 1773 he executed busts of Catharine II. ofRussia and o fDide- rot, and in 1775 busts of Turgot and Glück and a statue of Sophie Arnould as Iphigenia. In the Salon of 1781 he entered his nude statue of Diana (which was excluded), the statue of Tourville and the famous Voltaire of the Théâtre français. He also made busts of Moli?re, Rousseau, Franklin, and d'Alembert. His bust of Buffon is perhaps his finest work. In the Revolution he was denounced at the tribunal of the Convention for having a statue of a Saint in his atelier, and escaped through the presence of mind of a member who declared that the work was a statue of Philosophy" (Century Cyclo- pedia of Names'). Houdon executed a number of Portrait-medallions in terracotta, some of which were cast in bronze. One of them, with conjoined busts of the artist's wife and daughter, is reproduced in Les Arts, Sept. 1903, p. 14. These Portrait-medallions can hardly be classed amongst medallic productions.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
HERTER, E
HERTER, E (Germ ). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, whose name appears in conjunction with that of O. Schultz on a medal commemorating the Opening of the Kiel Canal, 1895, and bearing on the obv. the bust of the three Emperors William I., Frederick, and William II. Menadier, Schaumünzen des Hauses Hohenzollern, illustrates another medal, engraved by Schultz, and the reverse of which was modelled by Herter, that of the International Fine Art Exhibition at Berlin, 1891. Bibliography. — Menadie...
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HERTER, E (Germ ). Contemporary Sculptor and Medallist, whose name appears in conjunction with that of O. Schultz on a medal commemorating the Opening of the Kiel Canal, 1895, and bearing on the obv. the bust of the three Emperors William I., Frederick, and William II. Menadier, Schaumünzen des Hauses Hohenzollern, illustrates another medal, engraved by Schultz, and the reverse of which was modelled by Herter, that of the International Fine Art Exhibition at Berlin, 1891. Bibliography. — Menadie...
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HEUBERGER, LEOPOLD
HEUBERGER, LEOPOLD (Austr.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century. He engraved in 1827 a medal on the Recons- truction of the University of Gratz, and the reverse of a medal of Charles John, Crown Prince of Sweden, and Field Marshal Prince von Schwarzenberg, with busts on either side; also medals of Prince Metternich;— Prince Hieronymusvon Mansteld-Colloredo; — Field Marshal von Blücher; — Pattern Double Gulden of 1831 (not approved of by the Monetary commission);--- Visit of Al...
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HEUBERGER, LEOPOLD (Austr.). Medallist of the first half of the nineteenth century. He engraved in 1827 a medal on the Recons- truction of the University of Gratz, and the reverse of a medal of Charles John, Crown Prince of Sweden, and Field Marshal Prince von Schwarzenberg, with busts on either side; also medals of Prince Metternich;— Prince Hieronymusvon Mansteld-Colloredo; — Field Marshal von Blücher; — Pattern Double Gulden of 1831 (not approved of by the Monetary commission);--- Visit of Al...
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HEURTHAUX, NICOLAS
HEURTHAUX, NICOLAS (French). Die-sinker at Paris, circa 1805- 181 5. He appears to have worked for the Medal Mint, and engraved several jetons and perhaps also some medals belonging to the Napoleonic Series. Very little appears to be known of this Engraver, whose signature I have noticed on the two pieces described here : Masonic Jeton of the Lodge of Angers, 1811, signed HEURTHUAX F (sic) ; Pattern 5 Franc Piece, for the monetary commission of 1814/15 ; etc. In An XI he was one of the competito...
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HEURTHAUX, NICOLAS (French). Die-sinker at Paris, circa 1805- 181 5. He appears to have worked for the Medal Mint, and engraved several jetons and perhaps also some medals belonging to the Napoleonic Series. Very little appears to be known of this Engraver, whose signature I have noticed on the two pieces described here : Masonic Jeton of the Lodge of Angers, 1811, signed HEURTHUAX F (sic) ; Pattern 5 Franc Piece, for the monetary commission of 1814/15 ; etc. In An XI he was one of the competito...
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HEYLBROECK, NORBERT
HEYLBROECK, NORBERT (Belg.). Goldsmith of Ghent ; appointed Engraver to the Mint at Bruges in 1749 ; ten year later he asked to be transferred to Brussels. He is the author of a medal of Maria Theresia, signed N. H., 1752. In 1731 this Engraver had been condemned to imprisonment for life as a false coiner, but in 1735, his wife obtained his release from the Archduchess Marie Elizabeth, Governor of the Netherlands. Bibliography. — Pinchart, Histoire de la gravure des médailles en Belgique, Bruxel...
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HEYLBROECK, NORBERT (Belg.). Goldsmith of Ghent ; appointed Engraver to the Mint at Bruges in 1749 ; ten year later he asked to be transferred to Brussels. He is the author of a medal of Maria Theresia, signed N. H., 1752. In 1731 this Engraver had been condemned to imprisonment for life as a false coiner, but in 1735, his wife obtained his release from the Archduchess Marie Elizabeth, Governor of the Netherlands. Bibliography. — Pinchart, Histoire de la gravure des médailles en Belgique, Bruxel...
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