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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LakeEffect, post: 8162881, member: 43201&quot;]I never knew until today that the 1932 quarter design had to be based upon a sculpture of Washington by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Houdon made a plaster cast of Washington&#039;s face (a &quot;life-mask&quot;). That&#039;s why Fraser&#039;s and Flannigan&#039;s portraits look similar.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">I</span><span style="color: #ff0080">t&#039;s good to learn new things at my age.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Below, Houdon&#039;s clay bust he left with Washington before returning to France and the completed statue he completed later.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://mtv-main-assets.mountvernon.org/files/resources/houdon-bust-march-21-2014-shenk-732-web.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Virginia_State_Capitol_complex_-_Houdon%27s_Washington%2C_seen_from_the_front.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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