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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.

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