"the existence of the versailles version, of finer quality, has cast doubt on the authenticity of the portrait from the carnavalet museum, the history of which is nevertheless quite certain. According to samuel taylor's research, it seems that the carnavalet painting is indeed the original and that the versailles painting is an autograph replica, requested by voltaire from the artist around 1740. The difference in quality can be explained by the greater notoriety of the model in 1740: largillierre would then have taken more care to represent the most famous writer in all of europe than he had taken, around 1720, to represent an author still in his beginnings. " [1]. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: from 1718 until 1724. Dimensions: height: 80 cm (31.4 in) ; width: 65 cm (25.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Voltaire. Collection: Musée Carnavalet. Nicolas de Largillière - Portrait de Voltaire (1694-1778) en 1718 - P208 - musée Carnavalet - 5
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