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The Bone Player
The Bone Player

The Bone Player

Adolphe Lafosse (French, 1810–1879)
William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
1857
Medium/TechniqueChromoithograph with additional hand coloring
DimensionsSheet: 83.5 x 63 cm (32 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800-1875
Accession number2007.47
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn stone, in image: Lafosse In stone, at lower left: Painted by Wm. S. Mount In stone, at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857, by W. Schaus, in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York In stone, at lower right: Lith. by Lafosse. In stone, at lower center: The Bone Player. / New-York, pub-d. by W. Schaus, 29 Broadway In stone, at lower right: Imp. F-ois. Delarue, ParisProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport, R. I. by 1944; his bequest to MFA 1964; accessioned 2007.