VI373
© 2011 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1760
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- marble
- Dimensions:
- 36 x 42 cm
- Current location:
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- RF 3064
- Collection link:
- https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010094873
- Inscriptions:
- [on the reverse, along the edge] P : VERSCHAFFELT : ANNO : 1760
- [on the underside of the foot] VOLTAIRE / NÉ 20 FÉVRIER 1694 / † 30 MAI 1778
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- 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. 226, cat. no. 275.
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, p. 65, cat. no. 184.
- Related:
- [plaster cast] Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, 1906-F
- [a version of the bust with a wig] Christie’s, 29 January 2015 sale, Lot 263
- [a copy of the bust by Pierre-François Lejeune, commissioned by Carl Eugen von Württemberg] Ludwigsburg Palace, Ludwigsburg, KRGT5753