VI112
Nicholas Cronk, Oxford / Sofya Dmitrieva
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1768
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- cut-out
- Materials:
- cut-out from playing card mounted on red paper
- Dimensions:
- 12.7 x 9.3 cm
- Current location:
- Private collection
- Collection ID number:
- Nicholas Cronk, Oxford
- Keywords:
- chair, table, tablecloth, desk, cuffs, justacorps, wig, profile, toothless, sitting, inkwell, quill
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Garry Apgar, L'art singulier de Jean Huber: voir Voltaire, Paris: Adam Biro, 1995, pp. 45, 135, 228, 231, pl. XVI, fig. 43.
- Letter from Jean Huber to the Duke of Grafton, 16 December 1759, SRO, Fitzroy Papers, Acc. 423, Pt. IV, Letter 979, folio 2.
- Silvia Mazzoleni, Ostinatamente Voltaire. Un suo ritratto di Jean Huber ritrovato nel castello d’Hauteville, Tesserete: Pagine d'Arte, 2019, n.p. (p. 43).
- Voltaire et Henri IV [exh. cat. Pau, Musée national du Château de Pau, 27 April – 30 July 2001], Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001, p. 73, cat. no. 79.
- Related:
- [an earlier version of the cut-out showing Voltaire with his arms raised in a gesture of prayer] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0340
