French school from the first half of the 19th... Lot 204

French school from the first half of the 19th century after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828). Voltaire seated. Plaster proof with terracotta patina. Height: 28 cm. (Accidents, small damages and restorations). Related works : -Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire assis, ca. 1778, H. 146 cm, Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la ville de Paris, inv. PPS1216 -Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire assis, 1781, marble, H. 138 cm, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, inv. H.CK-9 Jean-Antoine Houdon presented at the Salon of 1779 a gilded bronze reduction of Voltaire seated (under number 222) commissioned by Catherine II of Russia.