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Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) by Giovanni Battista Nini — VisualArtsDB

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Giovanni Battista Nini

1781

Medium: Relief
Dimensions: 14.5 × 2.4 cm (5 11/16 × 15/16 in.) framed: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.) 425.4 g
Genre: Sculpture
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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