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Fortune
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About this work
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).
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFortune, 1901. John La Farge (American, 1835–1910). Graphite; sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William G. Mather, 1950.316
