VI416
CC0 1.0 Universal / Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet
- Artist:
- Year of creation:
- 1817-1852
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- medal
- Materials:
- brass
- Dimensions:
- 14 cm (diameter)
- Current location:
- Musée Carnavalet, Paris
- Collection ID number:
- S1996
- Inscriptions:
- [along the rim] AROUET DE VOLTAIRE / NÉ À PARIS EN 1694 MORT DANS LA MEME VILLE EN 1778
- [belowthe truncation] MAIRE F.
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Fernand Mazerolle, "Jean-Baptiste Maire, biographie et catalogue de son œuvre", Gazette numismatique française (1897), pp. 289-298, here p. 298, URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1182060h/f317.item [accessed 27.05.2026].
- 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. 230.
- Related:
- [another copy, brass] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0070
- [another copy, bronze] Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, CdN 008163
- [another copy, bronze] Sotheby's, 22 June 2023 sale, Lot 37
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