Honoré Jean Aristide Husson (born in Paris on 1 July 1803, died in Meudon on 30 July 1864) was a French academic sculptor of the 19th century.
He was the pupil of David d'Angers. In 1827, he won the 2nd Prix de Rome in 1827 and in 1830 the first Prix de Rome. He lived in the Villa Medici from 1831 to 1836. Back in Paris, he participated in exhibitions from 1837 and won a 2nd class medal in 1837 and a first class medal in 1848. On 9 May 1853, he married Sophie Desiree Marie Tremblay in Paris.
Main works
Husson received many State orders, including :
L'Ange gardien offrant à Dieu un pécheur repentantA bust of Louis Philippe for the Académie de l’Été et l’AutomneFigures from one of the fountains of the Place de la Concorde, Rome, 1839Two busts of Boissy d'Anglas and Chancellor DambrayMarguerite de Provence, 1847, and Eustache Lesueur, 1853, Jardin du LuxembourgSummer and Autumn, figures of one of the fountains of the Place de la Concorde, 1839Statues of Voltaire and Bailly at Old City HallSaint Bernard at the MadeleineGouvion St Cyr at the Senate of FranceAnges en adoration, St. Vincent de PaulStatue of Clovis, Church of St. ClotildeEustache Lesueur, Jacques Sarrazin and General Desaix the new LouvreStatue of Coulomb, Conservatoire des Arts et MétiersDagobert, Tower of Saint Germain l'AuxerroisSt. Mathias, St. Simon and St. Jude, Church of Saint Eustache
