Plaster Casts: Voltaire

Bust of Voltaire

18^th Century, Houdon

Paris, France

Portrayed a few months before his death, immortalizing his age, clearly meant to emulate portraits of Roman antiquity

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”

(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”

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