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Portrait of Commodore Vanderbilt
Joseph (Giuseppe) Fagnani (Italian (active in the United States), 1819–1873)
1865
Medium/Technique
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 x 9.6 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number61.274
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 278
DescriptionBust portrait, head to left. Slight sketch of a head on verso.
InscriptionsOn old mount in pen and ink: Sketch of Commodore Vanderbilt, take from life, NewYork 1865, by Joseph Fagnani; in graphite: my mother's writing / C.P.F.
ProvenanceGift of Maxim Karolik for the proposed M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints, 1800-1875