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Le tombeau de Voltaire
Title
Le tombeau de Voltaire / L.V. inv. ; C.M. sculp.
Publication
Paris : chez Alibert Md. d'Estampes, au Palais Royal, et chez le Noir Md. du Cabinet des Estampes du Roi, au Louvre, [between 1778 and 1785?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; 20.4 x 34 cm, plate mark 26 x 37 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides 2019 497: On sheet 34.8 x 46.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Attributed to Macret, Charles François Adrien, 1751-1789 by Fridenberg and the National Portrait Gallery. Aattributed, by British Musuem, to Clément Marillier.
Date from British Museum.
Caption continues: Dédié à Madame la Marquise de Villette, Dame de Ferney.
Summary
Print shows the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America personified, respectively, as d'Alembert, Catherine II, Prince Oronoco, and Benjamin Franklin; they are about to honor the tomb of Voltaire when the personification of the Prejudice of Ignorance, rushes in from the right to disrupt the proceedings. Includes lengthy description below print. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin in full figure, standing to left, head turned toward center, his left arm extended holding fronds, after Cochin's fur hat portrait.
Format
Images
Language
French
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2021
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Composition, 145
De Vinck, 4168
Subjects
Genre/Form
Tableaux.
Etchings.
Engravings.
Intaglio prints.
Also listed under
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
France Paris.
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