Title: Voltaire (Marie François Arouet, 1694–1778)
Object type: Bust
Date: late 18th century, after model of 1778
Artist: After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon 
Artist bio: French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Painted plaster; painted and gilded wood
Dimensions: Height (bust only): 26 1/2 in. (67.3 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1908
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Authors