File:Atelier de Nicolas de Largillière, portrait de Voltaire, détail (musée Carnavalet) -002.jpg

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Artist	Workshop of Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746)   Alternative names Nicolas de Largillierre Description French painter and draughtsman Date of birth/death 10 October 1656 (baptised) 30 March 1746 Location of birth/death Paris Paris Work location England, Antwerp (1662-1674), England (1675-1679), Paris (1680-1746), London (1686-1688) Authority control
Title	Voltaire [at the age of twenty-four (?)], detail
Description	Depicted person: François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known as Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
Date	after 1724-1725
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	80 × 65 cm (31.5 × 25.6 in)
Current location	Carnavalet Museum Native name Musée Carnavalet Parent institution city of Paris Location Paris Coordinates 48° 51′ 26.08″ N, 2° 21′ 45.72″ E    Established 1890 Website carnavalet.paris.fr
	Salon Voltaire
Accession number	P.208
Object history	1899: ceded by M. Charles Floquet
Credit line	Gift of Mr. Charles Floquet
Inscriptions	verso: Fr. de Voltaire, peint par Largillierre en 1728, donné à la marquise de Villette en 1778 - in eighteenth-century handwriting
Notes	This portrait is a copy of the picture conserved in the Musée national du Château de Versailles, inv. MV 8159
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