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- Artist:
- Anonymous
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1767
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- biscuit
- Dimensions:
- 25.5 x 48.8 cm
- Current location:
- Musée national de céramique, Sèvres
- Collection ID number:
- MNC 20033
- Collection link:
- https://images.grandpalaisrmn.fr/ark:/36255/88-007429
- Keywords:
- tête nue, bareheaded, no wig, sideburns, shirt, chemise, jabot, wrinkles, toothless, smile, drapery
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Letter from Stanisław II August to Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin, 1 June 1768, in Charles de Mouÿ (ed.), Correspondance inédite du roi Stanislas-Auguste Poniatowski et de Mme Geoffrin (1764–1777), Paris: Plon et Cie, 1875, pp. 337-340, here p. 339, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k82523/f349.item [accessed 21.07.2025].
- Maurice Tourneux (ed.), Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique par Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, Meister, etc., Paris: Garnier frères, 1877-1882, 16 vols., vol. 7, p. 488 [November 1767], URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57813823/f499.item [accessed 21.07.2025].
- Samuel Taylor, “Artists and Philosophes as mirrored by Sèvres and Wedgwood”, in Francis Haskell (ed.), The Artist and the Writer in France: Essays in Honour of Jean Seznec, Oxford, 1974, pp. 21-39.
- Tamara Préaud and Guilhem Scherf (eds.), La Manufacture des Lumières: la sculpture à Sèvres de Louis XV à la Révolution, Dijon: Éditions Faton, 2015, p. 71, fig. 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. 232.
- Related:
- [a smaller version of the bust] Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, ЗФ-27250
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