VI229
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris / Sofya Dmitrieva
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1773
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- Materials:
- etching
- Dimensions:
- 32 x 49 cm
- Current location:
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- N3-VOLTAIRE, D292840
- Inscriptions:
- [on the recto of the medal] EXEQUAT VICTORIA COELO Locatellus sc
- [on the verso of the medal] OMNIA TANQUAM SINGULA ABSOLUIT / VOLTAIRE
- [below the image] Joseph Lante Scul.
- Keywords:
- sitting, desk, table, tablecloth, coat, fur-trimmed coat, hat, wig, cravat, jabot, cuffs, waistcoat, slippers, culottes, interior, chair, globe, library, books, curtain, drapery, priest, Mercury, caduceus, Pegasus, lion, laurels, wreath, index finger, toothless
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- António Coimbra Martins (ed.), Voltaire et la culture portugaise, exposition bibliographique et iconographique [exh. cat. 17 June – 5 July 1969, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Centre culturel portugais, Paris], Paris: Centre culturel portugais, 1969, p. 124.
- 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. 20, cat. no. 75.
- Gustave Desnoiresterres, Iconographie voltairienne: histoire et description de ce qui été publié sur Voltaire par l'art contemporain, Paris: Didier et cie, 1879, pp. 46-47.
- 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 pp. 225, 239.
- L. T. Isachenko, Vol'ter v izobrazitel'nom isskusstve [exh. cat. State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad], Saint Petersburg: Hermitage, 1978, p. 21, cat. no. 63.
- Louis Gielly, Voltaire: documents iconographiques, Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948, fig. 10.
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 161, cat. no. 463.
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- [another impresssion] Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, RESERVE QB-370 (24)-FT 4 , De Vinck 4118
- [another impresssion] Bibliothèque de Genève, Geneva, rig 1112
- [another impresssion] Metropolitan Museum, New York, 69.651.6
- [another impresssion] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0189
- [another impresssion] Museo Centrale del Risorgimento, Rome, (Aroldi VIII 1-62) Aroldi VIII(53)
- [another impresssion] Voltaire Foundation, Oxford
- [another impresssion, trimmed] The British Museum, London, 1852,1009.752
- [another impresssion, trimmed] Berlin State Library, Berlin, Voltaire, Nr. 16, b024656 More...
