2018.14: Voltaire's Head in 33 Variations
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.14
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Jean Huber, Swiss (Geneva 1721 - 1786 Lausanne)
- Title
- Voltaire's Head in 33 Variations
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Différents airs en 33 têtes de Mr. de Voltaire, d'après les Tableaux de Mr. Huber
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1775-1780
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359941
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 21.7 × 17.9 cm (8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
plate: 23.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.1 × 21.2 cm (9 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower center, in plate: Voltaire - d'apres Huber.
- collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink: +B [encircled] [mark not in Lugt]
- watermark: upper left, partial: [fleur-de-lis / arrow] / HBL
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private Collection, France. [Auction Pieter Kiefer, Pforzheim, February 2016], sold; to [Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Portalis and Beraldi, Tome II, p. 437
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.14
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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