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 repentant
A bust of Louis Philippe for the Académie de l’Été et l’Automne
Figures from one of the fountains of the Place de la Concorde, Rome, 1839
Two busts of Boissy d'Anglas and Chancellor Dambray
Marguerite de Provence, 1847, and Eustache Lesueur, 1853, Jardin du Luxembourg
Summer and Autumn, figures of one of the fountains of the Place de la Concorde, 1839
Statues of Voltaire and Bailly at Old City Hall
Saint Bernard at the Madeleine
Gouvion St Cyr at the Senate of France
Anges en adoration, St. Vincent de Paul
Statue of Clovis, Church of St. Clotilde
Eustache Lesueur, Jacques Sarrazin and General Desaix the new Louvre
Statue of Coulomb, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers
Dagobert, Tower of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois
St. Mathias, St. Simon and St. Jude, Church of Saint Eustache
