VI3
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- Artist:
- Anonymous
- Year of creation:
- 1793-1796
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- hand-coloured etching
- Dimensions:
- 33.2 x 49 cm
- Current location:
- British Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- 18771110.550000001
- Collection link:
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1877-1110-55
- Inscriptions:
- [on the pedestal] VOLTAIRE
- [below the image] A Paris chez Basset, rue St Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins
- Keywords:
- writing, sitting, coat, fur-trimmed coat, slippers, stockings, table, tablecloth, desk, quill, inkwell, paper, chair, wig, bow, jabot, Apollo, lyre, laurels, wreath
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Jennifer Montagu, “Inventaire des tableaux, sculptures, estampes, etc. de l'Institut et musée Voltaire”, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 20 (1962), pp. 223-247, here p. 241.
- Related:
- [another impression] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0205
- [a larger version of the print, with the addition of a star crown and other compositional modifications] Private collection, Nicholas Cronk, Oxford
- [calligraphic drawing after the print, signed "Bugerot 1848"] Ader, 27 January 2021, Lot 71
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