In the 1780s Houdon produced two semi-nude sculptures, Winter and Bather. Perceived as bourgeois for his connections to the court of Louis XVI, he fell out of favour during the French Revolution, although he escaped imprisonment. Houdon returned to favor during the French Consulate and Empire, being taken on as one of the original artistic team for what became the Column of the Grande Armée at Wimille. He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, on 17 December 1804.Houdon died in Paris on 15 July 1828, and was interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery. Family On 1 July 1786, he married Marie-Ange-Cecile Langlois; they had three daughters: Sabine, Anne-Ange, and Claudine. Legacy and influence Houdon's sculptures were used as models for the engravings used on various U.S. postage stamps of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which depict Washington in profile. Gallery See also Neoclassicism in France Washington-Franklin Issues Notes References ; Kessinger Publishing, 2006, External links Virtual Gallery Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) Art and the empire city: New York, 1825–1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Houdon (see index) 1741 births 1828 deaths People from Versailles 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French sculptors Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Prix de Rome for sculpture People of the French Revolution Les Neuf Sœurs French Freemasons Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists