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Reading of Voltaire's Tragedy The Orphan of China in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier

Reading of Voltaire's Tragedy The Orphan of China in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin

Lecture de la tragédie de l'Orphelin de la Chine de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin (museum title)

Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier

Date
1812
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
129.5 × 196 cm
Collection
Château de Malmaison, France
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Wikimedia Commons, public domain

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