thumb|left|Portrait of La Fontaine attributed to François de Troy Two contemporary sculptors made head and shoulders busts of La Fontaine. Jean-Jacques Caffieri’s was exhibited at the 1779 Salon and then given to the Comédie Française; Jean-Antoine Houdon’s dates from 1782.Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment, University of Chicago, 2005, p.115 There are in fact two versions by Houdon, one now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,Museum website and another at the castle of his former patron Fouquet at Vaux-le-Vicomte (see below).
thumb|left|Portrait of La Fontaine attributed to François de Troy Two contemporary sculptors made head and shoulders busts of La Fontaine. Jean-Jacques Caffieri’s was exhibited at the 1779 Salon and then given to the Comédie Française; Jean-Antoine Houdon’s dates from 1782.Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment, University of Chicago, 2005, p.115 There are in fact two versions by Houdon, one now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,Museum website and another at the castle of his former patron Fouquet at Vaux-le-Vicomte (see below).