Art, literature & history
Voltaire
1791
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color etching and wash manner on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 25 x 21 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 31.5 x 26.7 cm (12 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2010.103.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pierre-Michel Alix. Voltaire. Pierre-Michel Alix; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Michel_Alix,_Voltaire,_NGA_152272.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Voltaire — Pierre-Michel Alix. 1791.
Medium: color etching and wash manner on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 25 x 21 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 31.5 x 26.7 cm (12 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2010.103.1. Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.