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A partially nude female figure balances on a large wheel, arms out, looking left.

The woman is drawn in the center of the paper facing us. She’s nude from the waist up, her torso bends slightly to the right while her face turns left, her right arm is out with palm up and higher than the left, with palm down. The pantaloon garment around her waist is drawn with the most detail, and covers her right leg down to the foot, and is rolled up above the left knee. Her bare right foot rests on the hub of the wheel. Her face and the wheel are lightly sketched.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.14
People
John La Farge, American (New York, NY 1835 - 1910 Providence, RI)
Title
Fortune on Wheel, Study for Frick Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Fortune Seated on a Wheel
Former Title: Allegory
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1901 - 1902
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307882

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white cardboard
Dimensions
27.6 x 20.2 cm (10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: stamped in red ink, l.l.: [John La Farge in Japanese characters]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: by John La Farge
  • label: removed from old mat? now in curatorial file, paper, printed: [Design of stone tablet with helmet and rearing lion on shield] Grenville / Lindall / Winthrop

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott & Fowles, New York, NY]; sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York 1924, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.14
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry A. La Farge, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge, Unpublished (n.d.), card 1004

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/23/1936 - 04/26/1936

Verification Level

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