These studies are for the Certificate of Honourable Mention for the International Exhibition of 1862, the main study being for the figure of Fortune. Stevens did two versions, the first being rejected by Queen Victoria because it included a reference to her widowhood, and the design was cut on wood by W I Linton. According to K R Towndrow (Alfred Stevens, 1939, pp. 175-6), 'The Certificate gave Stevens much trouble at a preoccupied time, and his impatience was increased by the florid manner and fashionable presence of Frederic Leighton, the painter, who had been commissioned by the Government to treat with Stevens over the matter. Stevens received the future peer and distinguished President of the Royal Academy very coolly, and afterwards spoke of him as 'that fop of an artist'; but in justice to Leighton he made no mistake about Stevens' quality, and after his death was most faithful and practical supporter'.