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 at one of Madame Necker's dinners that a group of literary men first suggested establishing a fund to commission a statue of Voltaire by sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. His nude sculpture of Voltaire was completed in 1776 and is now housed in the Louvre.