The Road to Fortune

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Prints and Drawings

1762/1806

Nicolas Joseph Voyez (French, 1742-1806)
after Pierre Antoine Baudouin (French, 1723-1769)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nicolas Joseph Voyez
Title: The Road to Fortune
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1762–1806
Medium: Engraving with stipple in black on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Lettered, lower right: "Voyez major sculp."; lower left: "Baudoin pinx."; below image: "Le Chemin de la Fortune./ Dediee aux Amateur/ Et grave d'apres le Tableau...la collectio de M.Prault Lere./ se vend a Paris chez Basan et Poignant, m.de d'Estampes, rue et Hotel Serpente."
Dimensions: Image: 40.6 × 33.1 cm (16 × 13 1/16 in.); Plate: 46.8 × 36.7 cm (18 7/16 × 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 55.4 × 45 cm (21 13/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1926.931
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