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Le Déjeuner de Voltaire à Ferney or Le Souper des Philosophes, c. 1773–75
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Artist | Jean Huber |
| Spatial Coverage | Switzerland |
| Temporal Coverage | 1768-1780 |
| Description | The Swiss artist and caricaturist Jean Huber was Voltaire's longtime neighbor and his most frequent portraitist. This anonymous print after a Huber painting imagines some of the leading statesmen, polymaths, writers, and clerics who often hobnobbed with Voltaire coming to supper at his Ferney estate. Voltaire, his hand raised, calls the group to order. Included in the cosmopolitan cast of characters are Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, authors of the famous Encyclopédie. Although the two writers were associated with Voltaire, there is no surviving record of them having dined at Ferney. [A work made of etching in black on bluish gray laid paper.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Etching Paper (fiber Product) Print Prints and Drawings Artworks |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
| Object Type | Drawing |
