VI47
© David Bordes / Centre des monuments nationaux
- Artist:
- Anonymous
- Year of creation:
- 1736
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- painting
- Materials:
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions:
- 50 x 60 cm
- Current location:
- Château de Ferney, Ferney-Voltaire
- Collection ID number:
- FER1999000097
- People represented:
- Related texts:
- D1058. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 12 April 1736
- D1066. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 20 April 1736
- D1084. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 7 June 1736
- D1115. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 16 July 1736
- D1118. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 30 July 1736
- D1138. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 31 August 1736
- D1191. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 6 November 1736
- D1201. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 17 November 1736
- D1226. Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont, to Bonaventure Moussinot, 16 December 1736
- D1299. Voltaire to Bonaventure Moussinot, 18 March 1737 More...
- Bibliography:
- Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein, La Tour: la vie et l’œuvre de l’artiste, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1928, pp. 171-172.
- Christine Debrie and Xavier Salmon, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, prince des pastellistes, Paris, Somogy, 2000, pp. 177-179.
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, pp. 9-18.
- Hervé Cabezas, “Voltaire, ses portraits, par Maurice-Quentin de La Tour et Joseph Rosset, leur reproduction, au Musée Antoine Lécuyer de Saint-Quentin”, Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français (2009), pp. 175-211, here pp. 175-199.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, pp. 88-89, fig. 117.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 3.
- Maurice Tourneux, La Tour: biographie critique, Paris: H. Laurens, 1904, pp. 31-32.
- Neil Jeffares, “Voltaire in Pastel”, 2016, URL: http://www.pastellists.com/Essays/VoltaireInPastel.pdf [accessed 7.08.2025].
- Neil Jeffares, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, London: Anagallis Books, 2022, pp. 239-242.
- Voltaire et Henri IV [exh. cat. Pau, Musée national du Château de Pau, 27 April – 30 July 2001], Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001, p. 68, cat. no. 68. More...
- Related:
- [first préparation] Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMB 1946
- [second préparation] Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, 1995.6.1
- [original pastel] unknown
- [18th-century oil copy] Berlin State Library, Berlin, Kunstsammlung K 74
- [18th-century oil copy] Château de Versailles, Versailles, MV 6101
- [oil copy given by Voltaire to Mme de Champbonin in 1737] Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, 1983.7.33
- [a reverse copy of the pastel destroyed by the fire in the Château de Lunéville on 2 January 2003 ] destroyed, https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/rose-valland/MNR00100
- [18th-century oil copy] State Alexander Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Ж-626
- [18th-century Russian oil copy] Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, Vladimir Oblast, Ж-169
- [18th-century Russian oil copy] Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, Vladimir Oblast, Ж-135 More...
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VI187
Ducarme [Pierre François Ducarme] and Bernard-Romain Julienafter Maurice Quentin de La Tour1826-1827
