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Musée Jacquemart-André, Chaalis / Sofya Dmitrieva

Artist:
Anonymous
Year of creation:
1744-1778
Place of creation:
Object type:
sculpture
Materials:
marble
Current location:
Musée Jacquemart-André, Abbaye de Chaalis
Collection ID number:
MJAC-Sc 163
Bibliography:
  • António Coimbra Martins (ed.), Voltaire et la culture portugaise, exposition bibliographique et iconographique [exh. cat. 17 June – 5 July 1969, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Centre culturel portugais, Paris], Paris: Centre culturel portugais, 1969, p. 123.
  • Cécilie Champy-Vinas, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704–1778): un sculpteur du roi au temps des Lumières, unpublished PhD thesis, Paris IV, 2017, vol. 2, pp. 279-285, cat. no. 73.
  • Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, pp. 59, 99-101.
  • Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 7.
  • Louis Gillet, Abbaye de Chaalis et musée Jacquemart-André: notice et guide sommaire des monuments des collections et de la promenade du désert, Paris: J.-E. Bulloz, 1933, pp. 71-72, cat. no. 163.
  • Louis Réau, Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIIe siècles, les Lemoyne, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1927, pp. 101, 150, cat. no. 114.
  • Voltaire et l’Europe [exh. cat. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Monnaie de Paris, 29 September – 19 December 1994], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1994, p. 226, cat. no. 274.
  • Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 49, cat. no. 140.
Related:
  • [1744-48 terracotta original, exhibited at the Salon of 1748] unknown
  • [plaster copy by Lemoyne, offered by Jean-Jacques Caffieri to the Comédie-Française on 16 February 1778 and used during the Coronation of Voltaire on 30 March 1778] unknown
  • [marble version attributed to Lemoyne, signed "par le moinne / 1744"] Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1967-0108
  • [limestone copy attributed to Claude François Attiret] Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon, 1877-40

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