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VI48

Artist:: Joseph Rosset
Year of creation:: 1766-1786
Place of creation:: Saint-Claude
Object type:: sculpture
Materials:: ivory
Dimensions:: 9.7 x 21.8 cm

Current location:: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Collection ID number:: TH 166
Collection link:: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010111897

Inscriptions:: [below the left shoulder] ROSSET Fec.
Keywords:: tête nue, bareheaded, no wig, sideburns, shirt, chemise, drapery, wrinkles, toothless, smile
People represented:: Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]
Related texts:: D13289. Voltaire to Etienne Noël Damilaville, 9 May 1766
D13307. Voltaire to Etienne Noël Damilaville, 21 May 1766
D13698. Voltaire to Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, 29 November 1766
D13700. Voltaire and Jean Louis Wagnière to Charles Frédéric Gabriel Christin, 29 November 1766
D14159. Voltaire to Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d’Argental, 4 May 1767
D14201. Marie de Vichy de Chamrond, marquise Du Deffand, to Voltaire, 26 May 1767
Bibliography:: Bernard de Montgolfier and Michel Gallet, “Souvenirs de Voltaire et de Rousseau au Musée Carnavalet”, Bulletin du Musée Carnavalet 2 (1960), pp. 2-23, here p. 9.
Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, pp. 86-88.
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 p. 202, fig. 30, 31.
Marie-Liesse Pierre-Dulau, Un atelier jurassien au temps des Lumières, les Rosset: sculpteurs, ivoiriers et peintres comtois à Saint-Claude dans le Jura au XVIIIe siècle, unpublished PhD thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013, vol. 2: cat. no. 59, pp. 280-28, cat. no. 61, pp. 286-287, cat. no. 64, pp. 294-298, cat no. 68, pp. 314-315, cat no. 71, pp. 322-323, cat. 92, pp. 404-408, cat. no. 93, pp. 409-414, cat. no. 96, pp. 420-422, cat. no. 97, pp. 423-426, vol. 3: cat. no. 151, pp. 103-107, cat. no. 206. pp. 440-444, cat. no. 208, pp. 445-448, cat. no. 212, pp. 457-459.
The World of Voltaire [exh. cat. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 30 March – 11 May 1969], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1969, p. 14, cat. no. 5.
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. 194, cat. no. 231, 233.
Voltaire, voyageur de l’Europe [exh. cat. Musée de l’Île de France, Orangerie du Château de Sceaux, 28 April – 5 July 1978], Sceaux: Le Musée, 1978, cat. no. 251.
Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 169, cat. no. 487b, 488.
Related:: [a 1767 alabaster bust of the same type, signed on the right shoulder “ROSSET f” and on the left shoulder “Voltaire ae 73”] Musée Carnavalet, Paris, S3165
[a 1767 alabaster bust of the same type, signed “ROSSET / SCVLPSIT 1767 / A ST CLAUDE”] Christie’s, 23 November 2021 sale, Lot 40
[a 1767 alabaster bust of the same type, signed on the right shoulder “ROSSET F : A St CLAUDE 1767”] Collection Choudin, Prévessin-Moëns
[a 1768 ivory bust of the same type, signed on the right shoulder “ROSSET F.”, on the left shoulder “A St CLAUDE”, at the centre “1768”] Collection Oulmont, Paris
[a 1768 alabaster bust of the same type, signed “ROSSET SCULPSIT A ST CLAUDE 1768”] Sotheby's, 8 June 1999 sale, Lot 13
[a 1768 marble bust of the same type, signed “Rosset Ft A St Claude 1768” on the truncation] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, A.4-1919
[a 1769 alabaster bust of the same type, signed "ROSSET PERE Fecit ST. CLAUDE. 1769"] Sotheby's, 28 November 2016, Lot 164
[an ivory bust of the same type, signed “Rosset F. / A St CLAUDE”] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, G155
[an ivory bust of the same type, unsigned and undated] Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1566
[an ivory bust of the same type] Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main (W 142 (Collection Reiner Winkler))
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