At a Glance
- Exhibition
- Jean-Antoine Houdon: Eight Portrait Busts
- Dates
- June 10, 1981 to August 9, 1981
- Museum
- The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
- Listing type
- Past Exhibitions
- Description
In line with other exhibitions devoted to lesser-known aspects of its holdings, The Frick Collection presented an exhibition organized around its marble portrait busts by Houdon: Comtesse du Cayla and Armand-Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil . Joining these two sculptures, both dated 1777, was another version of the Miromesnil bust, dated 1775, lent by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as well as Denis Diderot (1773; The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Madame Pierre-François His (1775; E.V.
