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- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1763-1778
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 15.9 cm
- Current location:
- British Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- 18700514.273600001
- Collection link:
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0514-2736
- Inscriptions:
- [below the image] Visite de Mademoiselle Clairon, à Fernex
- Keywords:
- kneeling, wig, toothless, coat, fur-trimmed coat, cuffs, cravat, waistcoat, culottes, arms spread, floor, table, armchair, servant, interior, Ferney
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- 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. 22, cat. no. 85.
- Garry Apgar, L'art singulier de Jean Huber: voir Voltaire, Paris: Adam Biro, 1995, p. 91, fig. 99.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, p. 234, fig. 325.
- Jennifer Montagu, “Inventaire des tableaux, sculptures, estampes, etc. de l'Institut et musée Voltaire”, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 20 (1962), pp. 223-247, here p. 234.
- Jeroom Vercruysse (ed.), Voltaire: exposition organisée à l'occasion du bicentenaire de sa mort [exh. cat. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, 17 June – 19 August 1978], Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, 1978, pp. 140-141, cat. no. 83.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 33.
- Silvia Mazzoleni, Ostinatamente Voltaire. Un suo ritratto di Jean Huber ritrovato nel castello d’Hauteville, Tesserete: Pagine d'Arte, 2019, n.p. (p. 38).
- 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. 192, cat. no. 227.
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 175, cat. no. 516.
- Related:
- [another impression] Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, FS 327 E 58 (RP)
- [another impression] Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Lyon, Coste 15291
- [another impression] Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, 2022/6077
- [another impression] Château de Versailles, Versailles, INV.GRAV 7077
- [another impression] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. V, D285565
