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- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1718-1726
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- painting
- Materials:
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 65 x 81 cm
- Current location:
- Château de Versailles, Versailles
- Collection ID number:
- MV 8159
- Keywords:
- wig, long wig, waistcoat, hand in waistcoat, cravat, jabot, cuffs, justacorps
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Dominique Brême (ed.), Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1746) [exh. cat. Musée Jacquemart-André, Institut de France, 14 October 2003 – 30 January 2004], Paris: Phileas Fogg, 2003, p. 164, cat. no. 54.
- Georges Pascal, Largillierre, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1928, pp. 36, 71, cat. no. 153 (ancienne collection Bloch-Lavalois).
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, pp. 6-8.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, pp. 30-31, fig. 36.
- L. T. Isachenko, Vol'ter v izobrazitel'nom isskusstve [exh. cat. State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad], Saint Petersburg: Hermitage, 1978, p. 6, cat. no. 1
- Myra Nan Rosenfeld (ed.), Largillierre and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait [exh. cat. Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 19 September – 15 November 1981], Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1982, pp. 264-266, cat. no. 53.
- Voltaire et Henri IV [exh. cat. Pau, Musée national du Château de Pau, 27 April - 30 July 2001], Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001, pp. 34-35, cat. no. 1.
- Voltaire et l’Europe [exh. cat. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Monnaie de Paris, 29 September – 19 December 1994], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1994, pp. 50-51, cat. no. 16.
- Related:
- [a version of the portrait gifted by Voltaire to Suzanne-Catherine Gravet de Corsembleu de Livry] Musée Carnavalet, Paris, P208
- [Catherine Lusurier's copy, commissioned by Voltaire for the Académie française in the last months of his life, inscribed "François de Voltaire copié d'après le tableau fait par Largilliere en 1718, élu en 1746"] Château de Versailles, Versailles, MV 2987
- [a copy gifted by Voltaire to Charles Palissot de Montenoy] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0010
- [another copy of the portrait] Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire, FER1999000122
- [1790 copy by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, signed on the back "M. F. Arouet de Voltaire par Gautherot Elève de David. 1790"] Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, ГЭ-8385
- [19th-century copy of the portrait] State Literature Museum, Moscow, ГЛМ КП 37346
