Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778)
Jean-Baptiste Nini
1781 · Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In a technique of his own invention, Nini refined the local clay through a process of elutriation and used it to cast his medallions from finely engraved copper molds.
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Nini
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood
- Culture
- French, Chaumont-sur-Loire
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952
