VI35
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- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- marble
- Dimensions:
- 50.1 x 58.5 cm
- Current location:
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Collection ID number:
- Н.ск-7
- Collection link:
- https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/40336
- Inscriptions:
- [on the proper left edge of the truncation] Ordonné Par / S. M. J. / L'Impératrice de / Toutes / les Russies / Fait par Houdon / en 1778.
- 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. 162-165, cat. no. 25.
- Georges Giacometti, La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Antoine Houdon, Paris: A. Camoin, 1929, vol. 1, p. 32, 178, vol. 2, p. 162.
- Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 52-53.
- L. T. Isachenko, Vol'ter v izobrazitel'nom isskusstve [exh. cat. State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad], Saint Petersburg: Hermitage, 1978, p. 10, cat. no. 21.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 54.
- 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. 279.
- Related:
- [plaster, believed to be the original model for the marble] Ducal Museum Gotha, Gotha, P 37
- [plaster painted to imitate terracotta, signed on the right shoulder "Houdon / 1778"] Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, 1983.11.5
- [bronze copy, inscribed "f. p. houdon en 1778", formerly held by the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, destroyed during WWII] destroyed
