Live Auction 3709Old Master Paintings & Sculpture Part II
A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF VOLTAIRE
Lot 263

A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF VOLTAIRE

WORKSHOP OF PETER ANTON VON VERSCHAFFELT (1710-1793), FLEMISH, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed29 January 2015

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A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF VOLTAIRE
WORKSHOP OF PETER ANTON VON VERSCHAFFELT (1710-1793), FLEMISH, LATE 18TH CENTURY
On a later red and brown marble socle
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high, 15 in. (38 cm.) wide, 12. in. (30.5 cm) deep

Auction, Paris, June 1958
with Mathias Komor, New York
Gift of Mrs. John C. Atwood, Jr.

Specialist note

Another bust of Voltaire (1694-1778), also by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt and originally from the d'Arenberg Palace (Brussels), is know in the Louvre (RF. 3064). Both sculpture bears very close stylistic comparison, the drapery and the treatment of the face being similar. However, in the Louvre version, Voltaire is represented with hairs in the antique manner with a laurel wreath instead of a peruke in the present.