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- Artist:
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1799
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions:
- 14.8 x 21.8 cm
- Current location:
- British Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- 19001231.199000001
- Collection link:
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1900-1231-199
- Inscriptions:
- [in a plaque] VOLTAIRE
- [below the image] Dessiné et Gravé par Aug. St Aubin d'après le Buste fait par Houdon
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, p. 117.
- 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. 233.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 58.
- Wolfgang J. Kaiser (ed.), Le Siècle de Voltaire. Friedrich der Große und Voltaire. Aufklärung-Lumières [exh. cat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 26 April – 14 May 1995], Frankfurt: Kaiser, 1995, pp. 92-94, 96, cat. no. 37a.
- Related:
- [third state] Metropolitan Museum, New York, 17.3.756–1920
- [reversed version, fourth state ("Aug. St Aubin fecit, à Paris chez Ant Aug Renouard")] Budapest University Library, Budapest, KEP00199
- [reversed version, fourth state ("Aug. St Aubin fecit, à Paris chez Ant Aug Renouard")] State Literature Museum, Moscow, Гр-7542
- [reversed version, third state ("Aug. St Aubin fecit")] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. III, D285387
- [reversed version, third state ("Aug. St Aubin fecit")] Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20978 LR/ Recto
- [reversed version, second state] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. III, D285386
- [reversed version, first state with the medallion alone] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. III, D285385
- [reversed version, with initials "SA"] Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20977 LR/ Recto
- [version with a different signature ("Aug. de St Aubin del. et sculp.")] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. I, D285227
- [version with a different signature ("Aug. de St Aubin del. et sculp.")] Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20976 LR/ Recto More...
