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Sofya Dmitrieva
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1812
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- marble
- Current location:
- Panthéon, Paris
- Inscriptions:
- [on the pedestal] VOLTAIRE
- Keywords:
- gown, writing tablets, quill, scarf, shirt, shoes, mask, Thalia, dagger, Melpomene, no wig, bareheaded, tête nue, standing
- 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. 336-339, cat. no. 65.
- Georges Giacometti, La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Antoine Houdon, Paris: A. Camoin, 1929, vol. 1, p. 115, 181, vol. 2, p. 282.
- Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 105-106, fig. 204, pl. 140-142.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 57.
- Louis Réau, Houdon: sa vie et son œuvre, Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964, vol. 1, pp. 71, 72, 98, 181, 450-451, vol. 2, p. 20, cat. no. 42.
