File:D'après Nicolas de Largillière, portrait de Voltaire (Institut et Musée Voltaire) -002.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Nicolas de Largillierre
Description	French painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	10 October 1656 (baptised)	30 March 1746
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	England, Antwerp (1662-1674), England (1675-1679), Paris (1680-1746), London (1686-1688)
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Title

Voltaire [at the age of twenty-four (?)]

Description

Depicted person: François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher

Date

second half of 18^th century

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

60 × 50 cm (23.6 × 19.7 in)

Current location

Institution:Institut et Musée Voltaire

Object history

1953: ceded by Mr. Théodore Besterman

Credit line

Gift of Théodore Besterman

Inscriptions

verso: Portrait de Voltaire, peint par Largillière. Donné par Voltaire à Charles Palissot de Montenoy. - on paper, in nineteenth-century handwriting

Notes

This portrait is a copy of the picture conserved in the Musée national du Château de Versailles, inv. MV 8159

Source/Photographer

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