La Fortune [Fortune]
![La Fortune [Fortune] by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/aic/thumb/la-fortune-fortune-aic-4804.webp)
Medium
Photolithograph in dark brown on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.2 × 31 cm (6 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 23.5 cm (15 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4804
About the Artist
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1824–1898
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who became the foremost muralist of nineteenth-century France and a crucial bridge between academic tradition and modernism. Born in Lyon to a prosperous family, he studied briefly with Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture in Paris and traveled to Italy, where the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance made a lasting impression on his artistic v...