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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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127635
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Fortune
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127635
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drawing
title
Fortune
description
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).
date
1901
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en
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Q79907794
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
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America
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1950.316
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Fortune, 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
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description
cream(3) Japanese paper
collection
DR - American 19th Century
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in graphite: JLF. [illeglible]
inscription
signed, lower lef, in graphite: A [?] B[illegible]
citations
citation
Ross, Barbara T. <em>American Drawings in the Art Museum. Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples</em> : [Exhibition]. Princeton, N.J.: [Art Museum, Princeton University], 1976.
page_number
Mentioned, p. 76, under cat. 74
citation
Foster, Kathleen A., Henry A. La Farge, H. Barbara Weinberg, Linnea H. Wren, James L. Yarnall, John La Farge, and Henry Adams. <em>John La Farge: Essays</em>. New York: The Abbeville Press, 1987.
page_number
Mentioned, pp. 66-68, 219, illus., p. 68, fig. 160; cat. 99.
citation
Yarnall, James L. <em>John La Farge, Watercolors and Drawings</em>. Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 1990.
page_number
No. 140, p. 131
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Gift of William G. Mather
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2026-05-29 06:34:06.350000
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127635
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Drawings
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DR - American 19th Century
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