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Engraver Etienne Ficquet French
After Maurice Quentin de La Tour French
Sitter Voltaire French
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Title: Voltaire
Engraver:
Etienne Ficquet (French, Paris 1719–1794 Paris)
Artist:
After Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, Saint-Quentin 1704–1788 Saint-Quentin)
Sitter:
Voltaire (French, Paris 1694–1778 Paris)
Date: 1762
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:
Plate: 5 1/8 × 3 7/16 in. (13 × 8.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 in. × 7 1/2 in. (28 × 19 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number: 17.3.756-1477
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