VI70
© 2006 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1778-1780
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- painting
- Materials:
- oil on paper mounted on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 25 x 33 cm
- Current location:
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- RF 2487
- Collection link:
- https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064371
- Inscriptions:
- [on the volume beneath Voltaire's foot] LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS PAR
- Keywords:
- coat, jabot, cuffs, waistcoat, slippers, writing, sitting, desk, table, chair, armchair, quill, inkwell, lyre, mask, Poetry, Love, Satire, genius, faun, laurels, wreath, crown, torch, snake, light, garlands, quiver, coffee pot, cup, saucer, money, library, books, interior, smoke, flame, paper
- People represented:
- Related texts:
- Bibliography:
- Colin B. Bailey (ed.), Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780 [exh. cat. New York, Frick Collection, 30 October 2007 – 27 January 2008, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 21 February – 26 May 2008], Paris: Somogy, 2008, pp. 256-257, cat. no. 65.
- Colin Jones, Juliet Cary, and Emily Richardson, The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures: Drawing Satire in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012 (SVEC 6), pp. 159, 161.
- Édmond and Jules de Goncourt, L’art du dix-huitième siècle, Paris: Quantin, 1880–1884, 2 vols., vol. 1, p. 431, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k34126527/f501.item [accessed 17.10.2025].
- Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724–1780), vol. 1: Homme et l’œuvre, Paris: Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1929, pp. pp. 43-44, pl. XI.
- Émile Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin: peintre, dessinateur et graveur (1724–1780), vol. 2: Catalogue raisonné, Paris: Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1931, cat. no. 100, p. 22, pl. XI.
- Françoise Baudson (ed.), Voltaire et ses amis à Ferney [exh. cat. Musée de l’Ain, Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, 12 August – 15 October 1978], Bourg-en-Bresse: Musée de l’Ain, 1978, p. 23, cat. no. 91.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, p. 171, fig. 240.
- Suite des dessins de la collection Jean Bonna [exh. cat. École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, 14 February – 23 April 2006, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, 7 December 2006 – 25 February 2007], Paris: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2006, pp. 195-202.
- Voltaire et l’Europe [exh. cat. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Monnaie de Paris, 29 September – 19 December 1994], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1994, pp. 176-177, cat. no. 194.
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 120, cat. no. 338
- Related:
- [first-thought ink drawing] Jean Bonna collection
