Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828) Robert Fulton, 1803–04 Painted plaster; H. including socle 27 in. (68.5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Wrightsman Fund, 1989 (1989.329)		Joseph-Antoine Moltedo
Fulton (1765–1815) was a near-contemporary of Moltedo, and in this bust, sculpted in Paris in 1804, he is shown dressed in a nearly identical manner. A painter and inventor, Fulton posed for Houdon while visiting Paris in a fruitless attempt to enlist funding for his submarine invention. Moltedo, too, was an inventor, credited with a fire engine and a machine for spinning hemp. Back

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