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Bust of Voltaire at The Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris

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Title
Bust of Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)

Artist
Jean Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828)

Date
1778

Medium
Marble

Dimensions
Height, 47.9 cm

Accession #
1972.61

Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1972

Voltaire was renowned throughout Europe for an unceasing stream of brilliant polemics mocking organized religion and other institutions that suppressed personal freedom. Although this included most national governments of the time, he was courted by "enlightened monarchs" such as Frederick the Great of Prussia and Empress Catherine of Russia, each of whom acquired versions of this bust. Repeatedly banished from Paris for his many offending publications, Voltaire spent the last decades of his life in Ferney, on the Swiss border.
Houdon modeled Voltaire's portrait shortly after the celebrated exile's triumphant return to Paris in early 1778, a few months before his death. Immortalizing the aged Voltaire's physical frailty and sardonic expression, the bust was widely acclaimed as the closest likeness ever made of him. Crowds thronged Houdon's studio to view the work and the entrepreneurial sculptor soon began to produce the portrait in a variety of formats (different hairstyles and dress) and a wide range of materials (marble, bronze, plaster and terracotta). Several examples in this particularly classical format (which parallels that of the Diderot bust, 1974.291) are known. With his bald, bony skull, bare chest, and simple truncation, it is clearly meant to emulate portraits of Roman antiquity.
The present bust was one of several Houdon portraits acquired in Paris by Count Alexander Stroganov. The Russian expatriate had visited Voltaire in Ferney in 1770, en route to Paris, and once in the capital he soon became acquired with Houdon. They were both affiliated with the Masonic lodge of the Nine Sisters (to which Houdon donated another copy of the Voltaire). Stroganov had already commissioned Houdon's portrait of the empress Catherine (now in the Hermitage), which, along with the present bust and that of Diderot, was for many years displayed in the Stroganov Palace Museum in Saint Petersburg.
(source; metropolitan museum of art. scanned from a cast at the atelier des moulages, RMN)

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home technologie 3D tisku 3D tiskarny materiály 3D scanery 3D modely ART 3D programy 3D Slicer Reklama 3D tiskárny AONN.cz Spřátelené Weby		3D modely ART Bust of Voltaire at The Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris velikost souboru - 39MB stáhnout soubor 3D vizualizace Title Bust of Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) Artist Jean Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828) Date 1778 Medium Marble Dimensions Height, 47.9 cm Accession # 1972.61 Credit Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1972 Voltaire was renowned throughout Europe for an unceasing stream of brilliant polemics mocking organized religion and other institutions that suppressed personal freedom. Although this included most national governments of the time, he was courted by "enlightened monarchs" such as Frederick the Great of Prussia and Empress Catherine of Russia, each of whom acquired versions of this bust. Repeatedly banished from Paris for his many offending publications, Voltaire spent the last decades of his life in Ferney, on the Swiss border. Houdon modeled Voltaire's portrait shortly after the celebrated exile's triumphant return to Paris in early 1778, a few months before his death. Immortalizing the aged Voltaire's physical frailty and sardonic expression, the bust was widely acclaimed as the closest likeness ever made of him. Crowds thronged Houdon's studio to view the work and the entrepreneurial sculptor soon began to produce the portrait in a variety of formats (different hairstyles and dress) and a wide range of materials (marble, bronze, plaster and terracotta). Several examples in this particularly classical format (which parallels that of the Diderot bust, 1974.291) are known. With his bald, bony skull, bare chest, and simple truncation, it is clearly meant to emulate portraits of Roman antiquity. The present bust was one of several Houdon portraits acquired in Paris by Count Alexander Stroganov. The Russian expatriate had visited Voltaire in Ferney in 1770, en route to Paris, and once in the capital he soon became acquired with Houdon. They were both affiliated with the Masonic lodge of the Nine Sisters (to which Houdon donated another copy of the Voltaire). Stroganov had already commissioned Houdon's portrait of the empress Catherine (now in the Hermitage), which, along with the present bust and that of Diderot, was for many years displayed in the Stroganov Palace Museum in Saint Petersburg. (source; metropolitan museum of art. scanned from a cast at the atelier des moulages, RMN) náhodný výběr modelů Eros archers at the Louvre, Paris, France Marble head of a Veiled Goddess at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Annibale Carracci at The Louvre, Paris Two Faced Herma with Bacchus and Ariadne at The Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris South Asia figure at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK Funerary Spirit from the tomb of Philippe Chabot at The Louvre, Paris
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