Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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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Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820–1876) — Arab Woman
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — Study
Anonymous — Allegorical Figure (recto)
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — The Cap
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (French, 1743–1824) — Study
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) — Le Paradis et la P
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — The Dancing G
George Richmond|William Shakespeare — "Jocund Day Stands Tip
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — Little Draped
Premier Engraver (Italian, active about 1500) — Four Dancing
Kenyon Cox (American, 1856–1919) — Sketch
William Young Ottley — Vision of the True Cross Appearing to
