Le Tombeau de Voltaire
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Dubern & Cie.
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Textile printed in red on white showing vignettes with allegorical scenes: a heralding angel of Fame on a flying Pegasus before an unornamented triumphal arch and obelisk; a figure mourns next to the tomb of Voltaire in a field of obelisks; three graces dance in front of a seated Apollo; Jupiter's eagle holds a radiant bust of Voltaire in its beak; the figure of History writes Voltaire's name on the back of Time who carries an hourglass and scythe; an angel with a flaming torch greets a putti; a scholar converses with a hunchback man; a man cowers from a figure with snakes in their hands and hair, as well as from Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades; bats fly around a crop of flaming rock; Charon rows a boat decorated with the face of Medusa to the Elysian Fields, where the aged figure of Voltaire bows to be crowned with a laurel wreath by Henry IV while putti collect his written works; an elaborate fountain casts arcs of water in front of a building; a figure stand on the edge of a cliff in front of a classical building.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1944-22-2
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave; mordant for red
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 112 x 84.3 cm (44 1/8 x 33 3/16 in.)