Fortune
John La Farge · 1901 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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When commissioned in 1901 to make a stained glass window for the Frick office building in Pittsburgh, John La Farge produced this strange design of Fortune balancing precariously on a wheel—an emblem of the fickleness of fortune. The hazy, mysterious handling of the face of the central figure recalls contemporary French Symbolist painters such as Odilon Redon (1840–1916).
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Details
- Maker
- John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of William G. Mather
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
