Alexandre Bust type-USB In the cool dimness

In the cool dimness

As the most brilliant portraitist of the 18th century

Houdon maintained all his life a strong interest in the theme of childhood

Boxwood Nontron cheese knife with pyrograved ball shaped boxwood handle

committed to an aesthetic of the imperfect

Alexandre Bust type-USB In the cool dimnessLouise and Alexandre were the children of architect Alexandre Thodore Brongniart (1739 1813), famous for designing the Stock Exchange building in Paris and transforming the Pre Lachaise Cemetery. Thanks to his mother who was a painter and his father who was a caretaker at the Louvre museum, Jean Antoine Houdon (1741 1828) became acquainted at a very early age with the best sculptors of his time, such as Jean Baptiste Pigalle and Jean Baptiste Lemoyne.