The Philosophers' Meal, after 1772

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on green laid paper

Dimensions

image (

sheet trimmed within parts of plate mark): 20.5 x 31.1 cm (8 1/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
sheet: 25.8 x 33.9 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Accession Number

1995.67.1

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (artist)

Jean Huber (artist after) Swiss, 1721 - 1786

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, across bottom in pen and brown ink: 1. Voltaire. 2 Le père Adam 3 l'Abbé Maurice 4 D'Alembert 5 Condorcet, 6 Diderot 7 Laharpe. / Voltaire dit à d'Alembert je vous présente le Père Adam: Mais ce n'est pas le premier homme du monde / 1. Voltaire. 2 le père Adam. 3 l'Abbé Maurice. 4 d'Alembert. 5. Condorcet. 6 Diderot. 7 Laharpe

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London, England); purchased by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher