Voltaire

1706-1786 H: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); H: with base: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm) Citation Source image

Voltaire is represented as an elderly man wearing a wig with curled ends, a ruffled shirt, a coat edged with fur and trimmed with lace frogs, and a mantle twisted around his back and chest. The bust is mounted on an ebonized wood socle.This representation of the French philoso...

Sculpture

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27074
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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