Voltaire (Francoise Marie Arouet) (1694-1778), 1802

| Samuel McIntire (1757-1811)
| wood
| 15 (h) (38.10)
| inscribed, on base: ‘Voltaire’
| Bequest of William Bentley, 1819
| Weis 131

Ex. Coll.: Commissioned by the donor, 1802.

Exhibitions:
1957, ‘Samuel McIntire,’ Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.
1969, ‘The World of Voltaire,’ University of Michigan Museum of Art.
1977, ‘Landscape and Faction: Spatial Transformation in William Bentley’s Salem,’ Essex Institute, no. 19.

Publications:
‘The Editor’s Attic,’ The Magazine Antiques 28 (October 1935): 138.
Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver: The Architect of Salem (Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1940), 138-39, fig. 363.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Carved Figures by Samuel McIntire and His Contemporaries,’ Essex Institute Historical Collections 93 (April-July 1957): 196, fig. 49.

 

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