Title: Seated Voltaire
Object type: Statuette
Date: 1778
Artist: Workshop of Jean Antoine Houdon 
Artist bio: French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Plaster, tinted to imitate terracotta
Dimensions: Overall: 14 x 5 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (35.6 x 14.6 x 20 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Anonymous Gift, 1952
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Authors