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Profile sketches of man with and without a sun helmet
James Wells Champney (American, 1843–1903)
1860–1903
Medium/Technique
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 x 21.8 cm (5 1/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number2009.4754
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionRecto: Sketch of a man's head in sun helmet, and unfinished sketch of a man's head both profile to right
Verso: notes on European old master painters
Verso: notes on European old master painters
ProvenanceBy 1949, C. Richard Whittmore, House of Whittemore, Westboro, MA; 1950, sold by Whittmore to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893–d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1964, bequest of Karolik to the MFA. (Accession date: November 4, 2009)