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Object Type
Museum number: 1870,1008.910
Title: Object: Chambre du coeur de Voltaire
Description: The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; before letter, with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin. 1781 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Denis Née; After: Gaspard Duché de Vancy (?)
School/style
Production date: 1781
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 333 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 460 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bedroom; monument
Associated names: Associated with: Voltaire; Portrait of: Voltaire; Portrait of: Denis Diderot; Portrait of: Charles, marquis deVillette; Portrait of: Reine Philiberte Rouph de Varicourt, Marquise Du Plessis-Villette; Portrait of: Frederick II, King of Prussia; Portrait of: Jean le Rond d'Alembert; Portrait of: Catherine II, Empress of Russia; Portrait of: Abbé Delille; Portrait of: Louis Armand du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu; Portrait of: Mademoiselle Clairon; Portrait of: Ninon de L'Enclos; Portrait of: Jean François de Saint-Lambert; Portrait of: Henri Louis Cain; Portrait of: Jean François de la Harpe; Portrait of: Jean François Marmontel; Portrait of: Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet; Portrait of: César Gabriel, Duc de Praslin; Portrait of: Etienne François, Duc de Choiseul et d'Amboise; Portrait of: Jacques Necker; Portrait of: Antoine René de Voyer d'Argenson, Marquis de Paulmy; Portrait of: Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius; Portrait of: Dr Thomas Franklin; Portrait of: Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet; Portrait of: Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini, Duke of Nivernois
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,1008.910

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