VI32
© Musées d’Angers, Pierre David
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- marble
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 47 cm
- Current location:
- Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Angers
- Collection ID number:
- MBA J 54 (J1881)S
- Collection link:
- https://ow-mba.angers.fr/r/b25dca30-1906-4461-a65e-9245f18705b3
- Inscriptions:
- [lower right] HOUDON.1778.
- [on the back, continuing around to the right] LE PREMIER FAIT PAR
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Anne Poulet and Guilhem Scherf (eds.), Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculptor of the Enlightenment [exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 May – 7 September 2003, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 4 November 2003 – 25 January 2004, Château de Versailles, 1 March – 30 May 2004], Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003, pp. 152-156, cat. no. 23.
- Georges Giacometti, La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Antoine Houdon, Paris: A. Camoin, 1929, vol. 1, p. 31, 178, vol. 2, pp. 159-161.
- Guilhem Scherf, Houdon, 1741–1828: statues, portraits sculptés, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2006, pp. 68-69, 70-75, cat. no. 10, 11.
- Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 52-53.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, pp. 286-287, figs. 410-412.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 50, 52.
- Louis Réau, Houdon: sa vie et son œuvre, Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964, vol. 1, pp. 79-81, 93, 96, 99, 151, 156-159, 166, 178, 300, 354-360, vol. 2, pp. 44-55, cat. no. 202.
- Maraike Bückling (ed.), Jean-Antoine Houdon: die sinnliche Skulptur [exh. cat. Liebieghaus-Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 29 October 2009 – 28 February 2010 and Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 16 March – 27 June 2010], Munich: Hirmer, 2009, pp. 120-123, cat. no. 19.
- 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. 228, cat. no. 281.
- Voltaire, voyageur de l’Europe [exh. cat. Musée de l’Île de France, Orangerie du Château de Sceaux, 28 April – 5 July 1978], Sceaux: Le Musée, 1978, cat. no. 263. More...
- Related:
- [bronze copy, inscribed on proper left edge of truncation "HOUDON.1778."] Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 345
- [marble copy, inscribed on proper left edge of truncation "HOUDON. 1778", acquired from Houdon by Count Alexander Stroganoff in 1778-79] Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1972.61
- [bronze copy] Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 27.408000000000001
- [marble copy, inscribed on back edge of trunction "houdon f. 1778."] Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 3520
- [marble copy on bronze socle, inscribed on proper left edge of truncation "Houdon, 1778."] Musée Lambinet, Versailles, 648
- [marble copy, inscribed on proper right edge of truncation "HOUDON. 1778"] National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1963.10.240
- [marble copy] Musée des Avelines, Saint-Cloud, 69.1.49
- [marble copy] Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire, FER2017000337
- [marble copy] Musée Fabre, Montpellier, D45.1.1
- [plaster copy] Ducal Museum Gotha, Gotha, P 72 More...
