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Voltaire 178 Portraits, Frontispieces…Engravings on Copper, Steel, EtchingsThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Collection of 178 portraits of Voltaire: plates on strong paper from the 18th and 19th centuries engraved & after Barrois, Largillière, Riffaut, Tardieu, Beisson, Couché, Lebrun, Bertonnier, Dupin, Robert Sayer, de Latour, Pourvoyeur, Langlois, Lemoyne, Cathelin, Hopwood, Loitard, Bonvoisin, Petit, Balechov, Melu, Marillier, Lebeau, Condee, Ducreux, Cazenave, Loir, Lefèvre, Frilley, Soliman, Bosselman, Simonet, Vivant Denon, Quenedey, Scrivan, Bonneville, Benoist, Le Coeur, Mariage, Deveria, Potrelle, Moreau, Miger, J. Vernet, Saint Aubin, Queverdo, Massol, Vérité, Desenne, Touzé, Chasselat, Mme Lamothe, Eisen, Le Mire, Fauchery, Le Bas, including the 33 Essays on the physiognomy of Voltaire by Denon… 53 small portraits executed by the same artist do not bear any signature (see our 15th photo).Half-leather binding with signed corners (V. Niedrée), gold numbers set at the bottom of the spine, gold head, corners bumped, missing head cape , one joint partially cracked, interiorclean , 28 x 20 x 6 cm. Collection of 178 portraits of Voltaire: plates on strong paper from the 18th and 19th centuries engraved & after Barrois, Largillière, Riffaut, Tardieu, Beisson, Couché, Lebrun, Bertonnier, Dupin, Robert Sayer, de Latour, Pourvoyeur, Langlois, Lemoyne, Cathelin, Hopwood, Loitard, Bonvoisin, Petit, Balechov, Melu, Marillier, Lebeau, Condee, Ducreux, Cazenave, Loir, Lefèvre, Frilley, Soliman, Bosselman, Simonet, Vivant Denon, Quenedey, Scrivan, Bonneville, Benoist, Le Coeur, Mariage, Deveria, Potrelle, Moreau, Miger, J. Vernet, Saint Aubin, Queverdo, Massol, Vérité, Desenne, Touzé, Chasselat, Mme Lamothe, Eisen, Le Mire, Fauchery, Le Bas, including the 33 Essays on the physiognomy of Voltaire by Denon… 53 small portraits executed by the same artist do not bear any signature (see our 15th