VI34
© 2018 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- marble
- Dimensions:
- 44.3 x 48 cm
- Current location:
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- RF 1426
- Collection link:
- https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010093771
- Inscriptions:
- [on the edge of the left shoulder] HOUDON. 1778
- Keywords:
- wig, cravat, jabot, waistcoat, justacorps, toothless, à la française, smile, wrinkles
- 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. 157-161, cat. no. 24.
- Georges Giacometti, La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Antoine Houdon, Paris: A. Camoin, 1929, vol. 1, p. 31, 178, vol. 2, pp. 161-162.
- Guilhem Scherf, Houdon, 1741–1828: statues, portraits sculptés, Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2006, pp. 76-81, cat. no. 12.
- Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 52-53.
- 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. 227.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 53.
- 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.
- 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. 280.
- Related:
- [terracotta copy (undraped), inscribed on truncation of proper right arm "houdon f. 1778", cachet d'atelier on truncation of proper left arm] Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans, 1693
- [terracotta copy (undraped), inscribed on truncation of the left shoulder "HOUDON"] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0042
- [plaster copy (undraped)] Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 19084
- [plaster copy (undraped), signed "houdon 1778" under the right shoulder, cachet d'atelier on the back] Sotheby's, 15 November 2023 sale, Lot 25
- [marble copy (undraped), inscribed on back, in center:" AROUET DE VOLTAIRE, / NE A PARIS EN 1694, ET MORT EN 1778.", on truncated right arm: "HOUDON, F. 1778."] National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1942.9.127
- [1782 marble copy (undraped), inscribed on proper left side "Houdon. f. 1782"] Château de Versailles, Versailles, MV 852
- [marble copy (draped), inscribed across front of base "François Marie Arouet de VOLTAIRE né à Paris en 1694 et mort en 1778" and on right side of the base "Fait par Houdon Sculpteur. 1778"] Comédie-Française, Paris, S 0189
- [1780 marble copy (draped), inscribed on back "VOLTAIRE / HOUDON, F. ANNÉE / 1778"] Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, VZLOBO-0029
- [plaster copy (draped), cachet d'atelier on proper left side of the back] Residenz Ansbach, Ansbach, AnsRes P 20
- [plaster copy (draped), cachet d'atelier on lower centre of back of truncation] Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, 5924
