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Study for "Fortune"

(American, 1836–1923)
Medium/TechniqueBlack chalk and heightened with white on blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 45.1 x 28.6 cm (17 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.) (rough edges)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.440
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsLR in graphite: by E. Vedder study used / for "Fortune and the / peasant" a small picture
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA April 14, 1960
Elihu Vedder
1856–1923
Katyeleyat, Egypt
Elihu Vedder
1890
Dying Lion (recto); Wolf (verso)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
undated
Portrait of Nicolas de Launay (1647–1727)
Hyacinthe François Rigau y Ros, called Hyacinthe Rigaud
about 1712–19
Landscape, Tivoli
Édouard Bertin
mid-19th century
Jean Francois de Troy
Adélaide Labille-Guiard
18th century