Template:Did you know nominations/George Washington (Houdon)

George Washington (Houdon)
5x expanded by Morgan Riley (talk), Carptrash (talk). Nominated by Morgan Riley (talk) at 07:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that when asked to  sculpt George Washington from life (Pictured), Jean-Antoine Houdon demanded a life insurance policy for his trip to the United States?


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Length and history verified; apparently offline ref accepted in good faith. Daniel Case (talk) 21:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg Bare refs are not allowed for DYK, and there are at least seven that need to be upgraded. Also, the "citation needed" should be supplied. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:06, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Upgraded: The bare references have been replaced with full citations. The "citation needed" sentence has been removed for want of evidence; it was from pre-existing material (not the stuff we added) and did not show up in our general research; further, after a search of the museum's online catalogue, while revealing at least a dozen works by the artists, it does not show or mention this one. Morgan Riley (talk) 17:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Restoring approval AGF now that bare refs have been fixed, and unsupported material removed. I apologize for the delay in doing so. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)