VI66
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Artist:
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- black basalt
- Current location:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- C.58-1915
- Keywords:
- book, coat, justacorps, waistcoat, jabot, cravat, wig, hat, culottes, cuffs, smile, wrinkles, toothless, standing, shoes
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Aileen Dawson, British Museum Masterpieces of Wedgwood, London: British Museum Press, 1995, pp. 45-86, pl. 13.
- David Bindman, The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution [exh. cat. The British Museum, London, April – August 1989], London: British Museum Publications, 1989, pp. 84-85.
- 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.
- Katherine Eufemia Farrer (ed.), Correspondence of Josiah Wedgwood, vol. 2: 1772 to 1780, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 323-327, 375.
- Robin Reilly, Wedgwood: The New Illustrated Dictionary, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996, pp. 317, 449, pl. 120.
- 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.
- 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. 235a
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 237, cat. no. 725.
- Related:
- [another copy] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0280
- [another copy] National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, LL 1138
- [another copy] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0330
- [another copy] Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 13091
- [version with a different base and a pendant Rousseau] Sotheby's, 23 October 2019 sale, Lot 112
- [caneware version with a different base and a pendant Rousseau] The British Museum, London, 1909,1201.440
- [related cermaic statuette] Burton Constable Hall, LDS146
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