# Bust of Thomas Jefferson [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOUDON, Jean-Antoine]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 78 cm ## Commentary In 1785, Houdon traveled to the newly liberated country of America and made many dignified busts of the leaders of that revolution, including Washington and Jefferson. The fine bust of Jefferson shows a statesman. The tautness of the features, the slight tilt of the head make of it something challenging, without exaggeration. Time has been at work on the features too, and subtly does the sculptor hint at the hollowing out of the throat, as more obviously in the sharply chiseled lines down the cheeks. ## Related artworks - [Antoine Louis Le Fèvre de Caumartin]() - [Bust of a Child]() - [Bust of Alexandre Brongniart]() - [Bust of Anne-Ange Houdon]() - [Bust of Diderot]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of Mirabeau]() - [Bust of Napoleon]() - [Bust of the Artist's Wife]() - [Bust of the Comtesse de Sabran]() - [Denis Diderot]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()