VI21
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- Year of creation:
- 1751
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions:
- 7 x 13 cm
- Current location:
- British Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- 19001231.521899998
- Collection link:
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1900-1231-5219
- Inscriptions:
- [below the image] Ch Eisen Inv. / Gravé par Noël le Mire 1751.
- Keywords:
- bust, wig, long wig, cravat, jabot, smile, genii, genius, flames, scientific instruments, celestial globe, telescope, compass, temple, light, Temple de la Gloire, trumpet, lyre, drapery
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Adolphe Lefrancq, Catalogue illustré et annoté des oeuvres exposées au Palais des beaux-arts de la ville de Valenciennes, Valenciennes: Hollande fils, 1931, vol. 1, p. 173, cat. no. 607, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6524660j/f193.image.r=607 [accessed 20.08.2025].
- Adrien Carlier, Charles Eisen de Valenciennes: dessinateur, peintre, graveur, 1720–1778, Valenciennes: Aux bureaux de la société, 1966, pp. 137, 152, 247.
- Related:
- [another impression] Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, A 23073
- [another impression] Musée Carnavalet, Paris, CARGPOR045357
- [another impression] State Literature Museum, Moscow, Гр-8380
- [later state, with an altered bust] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. V, D285611
- [as a frontispiece to the 1751 edition of Voltaire's works (Paris: Lambert) (Œ51)] Taylor Institution Library, Oxford, V.1.1751(1) v.1
- [as a frontispiece to the 1751 edition of Voltaire's works (Paris: Lambert) (Œ51)] Library of Congress, Washington DC, PQ2070 1751
- [as a frontispiece to the 1757 reedition (Œ57P)] Les Délices, Geneva, A 1757/3
- [a counterfeit in a 1765 edition of La Henriade] Les Délices, Geneva, D Henriade 1765/3 w
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