Couronnement de Voltaire (The Crowning of Voltaire), 1782

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 216 × 267 cm (85 1/16 × 105 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bocher 1882, no. 261, State a, iii/vii

Accession Number

1942.9.2441

Artists / Makers

Charles-Etienne Gaucher (artist) French, 1741 - 1804

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (artist after) French, 1741 - 1814

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: J. M. Moreau del.; in plate, below image, at center: Avec Privilege du Roi; in plate, below image, at right: C.S. Gaucher Inc.; verso: at lower right, in graphite: K304 [circled] / Fr 377

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1882: Bocher, Emmanuel. Jean Michel Moreau le jeune. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 6. Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1882.