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Artist:: Anonymous
Year of creation:: 1770-1800
Object type:: medal
Materials:: bronze
Dimensions:: 15 cm (diameter)

Current location:: Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Collection ID number:: S1919
Collection link:: https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/portrait-de-voltaire-1694-1778-philosophe-5#infos-principales

Inscriptions:: [along the rim] MARIE FRANCOIS AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
Keywords:: laurels, wreath, crown, profile, toothless, no wig, toga
People represented:: Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet]
Related:: [another cast] Cambi Casa d'Aste, 15 November 2022 sale, Lot 56
[plaster copy] Osenat, 22 September 2021 sale, Lot 294

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