VI152
Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels / Sofya Dmitrieva
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1785
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions:
- 25.7 x 33.5 cm
- Current location:
- Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
- Collection ID number:
- FS 327 E 42 (RP)
- Collection link:
- https://uurl.kbr.be/bib/18455518
- Inscriptions:
- [in the cartouche] Post genitis hic carus erit, / nunc carus amicis. / Par la Mse du Châtelet
- [below the image] De la Tour, Pinx, 1731/ P.G. Langlois, Sculp, 1785.
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, p. 17.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 6.
- Wolfgang J. Kaiser (ed.), Le Siècle de Voltaire. Friedrich der Große und Voltaire. Aufklärung-Lumières [exh. cat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 26 April – 14 May 1995], Frankfurt: Kaiser, 1995, p. 59, cat. no. 12b.
- Related:
- [as a frontispiece to vol. 16 of the 1784 Kehl edition] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, RES-Z-4465
- [another impression] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, RESERVE QB-370 (24)-FT 4, De Vinck 4084
- [another impression] The British Museum, London, 1914,0228.2441
- [another impression] Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, NUM EST 7953
- [another impression] Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, FS 330 C 10/16
- [another impression] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. I, D285259
- [another impression] Musée Carnavalet, Paris, CARGPOR045275
- [1784 version ("P. G. Langlois Sculp. 1784")] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, N2-VOLTAIRE, vol. I, D285257
- [1784 version ("P. G. Langlois Sculp. 1784")] Pushkin Apartment Museum, Saint Petersburg, Гр-3420
- [version with "VOLTAIRE." inscribed in the cartouche] Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1941-209 More...
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VI187
Ducarme [Pierre François Ducarme] and Bernard-Romain Julienafter Maurice Quentin de La Tour1826-1827
