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VI57

Artist:: Joseph Rosset
Year of creation:: 1769
Place of creation:: Saint-Claude
Object type:: sculpture
Materials:: alabaster
Dimensions:: 11.5 x 35.8 cm

Current location:: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Collection ID number:: NMSk 2022
Collection link:: https://collection.nationalmuseum.se/en/collection/item/28075/

Inscriptions:: [on the plinth] ROSSET Ft. A ST. CLAUDE.
Keywords:: book, coat, justacorps, waistcoat, jabot, cravat, wig, long wig, hat, culottes, cuffs, smile, wrinkles, toothless, standing, shoes
People represented:: Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]
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 pp. 7-9, fig. 4.
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. 203-204, fig. 32, 33, 34.
Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 45.
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temps des Lumières, les Rosset: sculpteurs, ivoiriers et peintres comtois à Saint-Claude dans le Jura au XVIIIe siècle, unpublished PhD thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013, vol. 2: cat. 118, pp. 507-509, cat. 119, pp. 510-515, cat. no 120, pp. 516-517, cat. no. 122, pp. 527-531, cat. no. 123, pp. 535-537, cat. no. 124, pp. 538-541, cat. no. 125, pp. 542-544, cat. no. 128, pp. 557-561, cat. no. 129, pp. 565-567, cat. no. 130, pp. 568-570, vol. 3: cat. no. 215, pp. 479-483.
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. 4.
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. 234.
Related:: [1772 alabaster statuette of the same type, signed on the plinth “ROSSET PÈRE / à St Claude 1772”] Musée Carnavalet, Paris, S3255
[1773 alabaster statuette of the same type, signed on the pedestal “ROSSET PÈRE / 1773”] Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1976-0106
[1776 alabaster statuette of the same type, signed at the back of the plinth “ROSSET père et fils A St CLAUD 1776”] Staatliche Museen Kassel, Kassel, Ka. Plastik no. 165
[alabaster statuette of the same type, signed on the plinth “ROSSET PÈRE”] Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 December 2004 sale, Lot 21
[alabaster statuette of the same type] Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, 1983.11.24
[alabaster statuette of the same type, signed on the plinth “Rosset père / et / fils”] Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, 1983.11.23
[alabaster statuette of the same type, signed “Rosset / père et fils”] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0047
[alabaster statuette of the same type, signed “ROSSET père et fils”] Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 16980
[alabaster statuette of the same type, with a scroll in place of the book] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0048
[terracotta statuette of the same type] Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire
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