Portrait of Molière
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CMV33883
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5-240 (II, f.11), ‘Portrait de Molière, envoyé par la femme du bon Poisson, fille de Ducroisy, de la troupe de Molière; avec la mention de la main de Voltaire: [V] ‘Portrait de Molière’
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Portrait of Molière
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This is a Portrait of Molière, sent to Voltaire by the wife of bon Poisson, daughter of Ducroisy from Molière’s troupe.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The portrait carries the phrase ‘Portrait of Molière’ in Voltaire’s hand.
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After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
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