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Fortune and the Young Child, 1818. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper · Image: 19 × 24.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Fortune and the Young Child
- Artist
- Horace Vernet French, 1789-1863
- Date
- 1818
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 19 × 24.3 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 28.2 × 38.7 cm (11 1/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Robert Chase Endowment
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1789–1863
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




