It was at one of Madame Necker's dinners that a group of men of letters first proposed starting a subscription to pay for a statue of Voltaire by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. His statue of a nude Voltaire was finished in 1776 and is now in the Louvre.
It was during one of Madame Necker's gatherings that a circle of intellectuals first suggested raising funds for a statue of Voltaire crafted by sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. The nude version of the sculpture, completed in 1776 and now displayed at the Louvre, represents Voltaire.