VI65
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Artist:
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- jasperware
- Dimensions:
- 4.1 x 5.1 cm
- Current location:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- 414:1273-1885
- Keywords:
- tête nue, bareheaded, no wig, sideburns, shirt, chemise, jabot, wrinkles, toothless, smile, profile
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- 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. 200-207, here p. 206.
- 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.
- Wedgwood portraits and the American Revolution [exh. cat. 13 July – 31 October 1976, National Portrait Gallery, Washington], Washington: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1976, pp. 40-41.
- Related:
- [another copy] The British Museum, London, 1909,1201.140
- [another copy] Bonhams, 6 June 2007 sale, Lot 124
- [a bigger blue-and-white jasperware version] Metropolitan Museum, New York, 24.80.46
- [a yellow-and-white jasperware version, inscribed "VOLTAIRE"] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, WE.7985-2014
- [a black basalt version, inscribed "VOLTAIRE"] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 414:1267/A-1885
- [a black basalt version, inscribed "VOLTAIRE"] State Historical Museum, Moscow, ГИМ 57095
- [a black basalt version, inscribed "VOLTAIRE"] Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh PA, 82.93.186
- [a black basalt version, inscribed "VOLTAIRE"] Quai des Enchères, 19 February 2026 sale, Lot 223
- [a black basalt version without inscription] Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh PA, 82.93.196
- [intaglio with Wedgwood's maker's mark] The British Museum, London, 1887,0307,I.522 More...
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