VI405
CC0 1.0 Universal / Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1817
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- medal
- Materials:
- copper
- Dimensions:
- 4 cm (diameter)
- Current location:
- Musée Carnavalet, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- ND542
- Inscriptions:
- [on the obverse, around Voltaire's profile] AROUET / DE VOLTAIRE.
- [on the obverse, on truncation] CAUNOIS F.
- [on the reverse] NE / A CHATENAY / PRES PARIS / EN M.DC. XCIV. / MORT / EN M.DCC.LXXVIII / GALERIE METALLIQUE / DES GRANDS HOMMES FRANCAIS / 1817.
- Keywords:
- wig, cravat, jabot, justacorps, toothless
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Jacques Van den Heuvel, Album Voltaire: iconographie choisie et commentée par Jacques Van den Heuvel, Paris: Gallimard, 1983, pp. 8-9, fig. 2.
- 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. 229.
- Voltaire: un homme, un siècle [exh. cat. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 25 January – 22 April 1979], Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1979, pp. 3-4, cat. no. 9.
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