About This Artwork

Etienne Ficquet (French, 1719-1794)
after Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (French, 1704-1788)

Voltaire, 1762

Engraving on ivory laid paper
114 x 72 mm (image); platemark not visible; 128 x 81 mm (sheet)
Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf, 1941.422

Faucheux 162 V/V; Firmin-Didot not listed; Fonds Français 156 I/I; Le Blanc 161 III/III