Reading of Voltaire's L'Orphelin de la Chine (a tragedy about Ghengis Khan and his sons, published in 1755), in the salon of Madame Geoffrin (Malmaison, 1812).

Object Type: painting. Date: 1812. Dimensions: height: 129.5 cm (50.9 in); width: 196 cm (77.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Alonso de Illescas, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Pierre de Marivaux, Voltaire. Collection: Château de Malmaison.

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Author: Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (1743–1824)Source: commons.wikimedia.org

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