Pernot, François Alexandre. Château de Voltaire à Ferney. early 19th century. Lithograph. Taylor Institution Library Collection, University of Oxford.
This print is by the French painter and draughtsman François Alexandre Pernot (1793-1865). The inscription which accompanies the lithograph includes text that Voltaire had carved above the doorway of his former apartments at the Château de Cirey where he lived prior to Les Délices and Ferney.
It reads:
“Asile des beaux arts, solitude où mon cœur
Est toujours occupé dans une paix profonde,
C’est vous qui donnez le bonheur
Que promettait en vain le monde.”
Voltaire, 1744.