Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   New New New Life Mask of George Washington In 1785 the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon visited George Washington at Mount Vernon where he observed General Washington and made a plaster cast of his face. Houdon used this life mask to complete the face of his clay bust of Washington which he left at Mount Vernon. When Houdon returned to Paris he used the life mask in creating the marble life sized sculpture of Washington which is now displayed in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. The photographs of the original life mask were the inspiration for Maestro Francesco Milanaccio’s sculptural reproduction. The patinaed terracotta work of art is hand made and hand finished in the Marches region of Italy. Life mask measures 7 ½” in height and 6” in width and weighs .95 pounds. Item #: 14940 Price: $130.00 Qty: George Washington Porthole Portrait Black and Gilt Framed Oil Reproduction George Washington Bronze Portrait Bust Bust of George Washington Sculpted Paperweight

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