Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon, Sitter: George Washington, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828)

c. 1786

Medium
Plaster
Classification
Sculpture
Dimensions
With Socle: 55.9 x 33.7 x 24.8cm (22 x 13 1/4 x 9 3/4")
Culture
United States
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
Credit line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Joe L. & Barbara B. Albritton and Robert H. & Clarice Smith
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Smithsonian Institution

About this work

Born Westmoreland County, Virginia