# Voltaire Planting Trees [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HUBER, Jean]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 53 x 43 cm ## Commentary Voltaire Planting Trees 1750-75 Oil on canvas, 53 x 43 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Huber executed a cycle of paintings depicting the daily life of Voltaire. This cycle was offered to Catherine II of Russia, nine of cycle are at present in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Voltaire Narrating a Fable belongs to this cycle, although critics assume that it may be a copy after one of Huber's works in this cycle either by Huber himself or perhaps by Liotard after an Huber original. ## Related artworks - [Voltaire Narrating a Fable]() - [Voltaire Welcoming his Guests]() - [Voltaire's Morning]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()