print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1925,0715.185.1-50
- Description
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A book containing a complete set of illustrations designed by Gravelot for Voltaire's "Collection Complète des Oeuvres", 30 vols in-4° (Geneva, 1768-1774), and also some portraits from the same book, bound in gilt-tooled leather; with portrait of Voltaire by Cathelin after De la Tour; a portrait of Gravelot by Massard after De la Tour; a frontispiece by Flipart after Gravelot showing Muses surrounding a bust of Voltaire; a portrait of Henri IV by Cathelin (design wrongly attributed to Janet on plate); ten illustrations to "L'Henriade" engraved by numerous engravers after Gravelot; a portrait of Charles XII by Saint-Aubin after Gardelle; a portrait of Peter the Great by Saint-Aubin, 1779; thirty-three illustrations engraved by various engravers after Gravelot for Voltaire's works, namely "Oedipe", "Mariamne", "Brutus", "La Mort de César", "Zaïre", "Alzire", "Meropé", "Le Fanatisme", "Sémiramis", "Oreste", "Catilina", "Adélaide du Guesclin", "Le Duc de Foix", "L'Orphelin de la Chine", "Tancrède", "Zulime", "Olympie", "Le Triumvirat", "Les Scythes", "L'Indiscret", "L'Enfant Prodigue", "Nanine", "La Prude", "Le Droit du seigneur", "La Femme qui a raison", "L'Ecossaise", "Pandore", "Samson", "La Princesse de Navarre", "Le Temple de la gloire", "Socrate", "Charlot"; a portrait of Louis XIV by Cathelin after Rigaud; and a portrait of Louis XV by Cathelin after Van Loo
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1768-1774 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 266 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 200 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0715.185.1-50
