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).
Provenance
William G. Mather [1857-1951], Bratenahl, OH (?-1950); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 10, 1950)
Accession Number
1950.316
Medium
graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 27.7 x 20 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Credit Line
Gift of William G. Mather
