A Reading of Voltaire's Tragedy at Madame Geoffrin's Salon
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier · 1812
Why it's great
A crowd of writers and thinkers listens to a reading in the salon of Madame Geoffrin, one of the places where Enlightenment ideas were discussed, while a bust of Voltaire looks on. Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier painted it in 1812 to show the famous salons of the 1750s.
🏛️ Part of history
The Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment (1600–1789) — A crowd of writers and thinkers listens to a reading in the salon of Madame Geoffrin, one of the places where Enlightenment ideas were discussed, while a bust of Voltaire looks on.
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Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier was a French painter born in Rouen in 1743. He worked in Paris and was the director of the royal Gobelins tapestry works. He painted the Salon of Madame Geoffrin and died in Paris in 1824.
