Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Anne-Ange Houdon at the Age of Fifteen Months

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Portrait of Anne-Ange Houdon at the Age of Fifteen Months
Date1791
PlaceFrance
MediumUnglazed terracotta
Dimensions12 × 9 × 6 1/4 in. (30.5 × 22.9 × 15.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
Object number44.578
Non exposé

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ProvenanceEugène de Villermay, son of Anne-Ange Houdon; Berthe de Villermay; [Arnold Seligmann & Cie., Paris]; purchased by Edith A. and Percy S. Straus from Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York, on May 11, 1937; bequeathed to MFAH, 1944.
Exhibition History"Sculpture by Houdon," Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1964.

"A Summer of Children," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 20–August 9, 1970.

"Splendors of Eighteenth Century France and its Women of Influence," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, May 12–August 4, 2002.

"Passion for Perfection: The Straus Collection of Renaissance Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–June 17, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed, proper right shoulder: Houdon
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