File:François-Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire (1694-1778) portrait (A).jpg

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anonymous: Porträt des Voltaire  wikidata:Q122064668 reasonator:Q122064668
Artist
After Maurice Quentin de La Tour  (1704–1788)  wikidata:Q314655
 
After Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Description French pastellist, painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 5 September 1704 / 5 October 1704 Edit this at Wikidata 17 February 1788 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Saint-Quentin Saint-Quentin
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q314655
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English: Portrait of François Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire (1694-1778) holding an edition of his work, La Henriade, after Maurice Quentin de La Tour.
Français : Portrait de François Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire (1694-1778) tenant une édition de son œuvre, La Henriade, d'après Maurice Quentin de La Tour.
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Depicted person: François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.
Depicted people Voltaire Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1737
date QS:P571,+1737-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(original: 1736)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 62 cm (24.4 in); width: 51 cm (20 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,62U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,51U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2854179
Current location
Deuxième salon des pastels
Accession number
1983.7.33
Object history 1983: given to Musée Antoine Lécuyer by Yves Carlier de Fontobbia
Credit line Don Yves Carlier de Fontobbia
Inscriptions

verso:

Donné par Voltaire à Mme de Champbonin en 1737
Notes A copy of the portrait of Voltaire executed in 1736, now lost.
References Joconde database: entry 07930000372
Source/Photographer Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Domaine public.
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