File:Atelier de Nicolas de Largillière, portrait de Voltaire, détail (musée Carnavalet) -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 (?)], detail

Description

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

Date

after 1724-1725

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

80 × 65 cm (31.5 × 25.6 in)

Current location

Carnavalet Museum

	Native name	Musée Carnavalet
	Parent institution	city of Paris
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 26.08″ N, 2° 21′ 45.72″ E
	Established	1890
	Website	carnavalet.paris.fr

Salon Voltaire

Accession number

P.208

Object history

1899: ceded by M. Charles Floquet

Credit line

Gift of Mr. Charles Floquet

Inscriptions

verso: Fr. de Voltaire, peint par Largillierre en 1728, donné à la marquise de Villette en 1778 - in eighteenth-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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Unique image ID	4211F8A91A66427D98F04A2EAF05C4CC
Date and time of digitizing	20:47, 19 November 2010
Date metadata was last modified	20:48, 19 November 2010
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