# Voltaire Seated [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOUDON, Jean-Antoine]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 165 cm ## Commentary The statue of Voltaire - with the Diana, one of Houdon's finest works - was executed at the request of Madame Denis, Voltaire's niece, who gave one marble version to the Comédie Française. A second marble copy was commissioned from the artist by Catherine II. There is also a terracotta version in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier. Houdon's sculpture depicts the great Enlightenment figure as a philosopher. ## Related artworks - [Antoine Louis Le Fèvre de Caumartin]() - [Bust of a Child]() - [Bust of Alexandre Brongniart]() - [Bust of Anne-Ange Houdon]() - [Bust of Diderot]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of Mirabeau]() - [Bust of Napoleon]() - [Bust of the Artist's Wife]() - [Bust of the Comtesse de Sabran]() - [Bust of Thomas Jefferson]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()