The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon

The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon is a c.1804 oil painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. It depicts the interior of the Paris studio of the Neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. He is shown with his wife and three daughters during a sitting.
Boilly was celebrated for his portraits and genre paintings of Parisian life and combines both in this painting. In an original sketch Boilly portrayed a bust of Napoleon. The version he exhibited at the Salon of 1804 featured the famous mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace.
Several versions of the painting exist. An 1808 painting by Boilly showing a life class is sometimes known by the same title, although it was exhibited at the Salon of 1808 as The Academy. It is now in the Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg.