VI97
Les Délices / Sofya Dmitrieva
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1775
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching
- Dimensions:
- 34 x 29 cm
- Current location:
- Institut et Musée Voltaire, Les Délices
- Collection ID number:
- imv ic 0129
- Inscriptions:
- [below the image] La Chaste Suzette
- Keywords:
- bonnet, coat, waistcoat, culottes, stockings, shoes, toothless, stallion, horse, dogs, servants, outdoors, 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. 13, cat. no. 53.
- Garry Apgar, L'art singulier de Jean Huber: voir Voltaire, Paris: Adam Biro, 1995, pp. 46-49, 228, fig. 45
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, p. 160.
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, pp. 216-217, fig. 298.
- 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.
- Related:
- [another version of the print, with the horses and the maid in the foreground and Voltaire and "Suzette" in the background, inscribed "Traité du Sublime Longin"] Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, FS 327 E 95 (RP)
- [a copy, hand-coloured in grisaille] Private collection, https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/La-chaste-Suzette/C791C9E1F70BEE05
- [gouache drawing on a fragment of the print] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0007
