Material: Bronze
Jean Antoine Houdon, a famed sculptor from France, was commissioned to create a marble sculpture of George Washington in 1785. Houdon traveled across the ocean to come and take exact measurements of his body and make a life mask of Washington for complete accuracy. He depicted America\'s first president as stoic, and dressed in his Revolutionary War uniform. He holds a cane in one hand and leans against bundle of rods called a fasces--a Roman symbol of civil authority; rods, individually, are easily broken, but nearly impossible to break if bundled together. Houdon depicted thirteen fasces to symbolize the thirteen colonies. This bronze copy of the marble original was made later.
