18TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL - Lot 18

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18TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL - Lot 18
18TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL Portrait of Voltaire Pastel Height: 44.5 cm Width: 37 cm Gilded, carved oak fluted frame in the Louis XVI style Provenance: - Auction in Paris, Palais d’Orsay, Me Couturier and Nicolaÿ, November 30, 1978, lot no. 5 (attributed to Jean-Etienne Liotard). We associate this pastel with the commemorative portraits of Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon, who depicted him following their meeting in 1778. Voltaire wears the same headband in his hair, an attribute inherited from antiquity and associated with wisdom. Our work is listed in Neil Jeffares’ *Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800* under number J.9.2898.
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