Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1938.41
People: Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1717 - 1786 Chaumont sur Loire, France)
Title: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture, relief
Date: 1781
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230304

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

14.5 × 2.4 cm (5 11/16 × 15/16 in.)
framed: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)
425.4 g

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: impressed on truncation: NINI F; below neck: J.B. NINI F 1781
inscription: around image, cast, French: VOLTAIRE · NE · LE · XX · FEVRIER · MDCXCIV
inscription: verso, blue paint, handwritten: 8

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1938

Object Number

1938.41

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description: Voltaire in profile right.

Verification Level

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