The Little Fortune (Q18338500)
Label from: English (en)
movement:
German Renaissance (Q2455000)
artist:
Albrecht Dürer (Q5580)
collection:
National Gallery of Art (Q214867)
Prints in the National Gallery of Art (Q64946756)
Rosenwald Collection (Q62274660)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
Rijksmuseum (Q190804)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Q160236)
Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden (Q570620)
British Museum (Q6373)
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (Q1954840)
location:
National Gallery of Art (Q214867)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin:
Germany (Q183)
material used:
paper (Q11472)
location of final assembly:
Nuremberg (Q2090)
fabrication method:
copper engraving technique (Q4287629)
depicts:
Fortuna (Q4654)
instance of:
copper engraving print (Q18887969)
print (Q11060274)
The Met object ID:
391051
National Gallery of Art artwork ID:
6579
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
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catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.106
information from the National Gallery of Art catalog
description: With the help of a staff, Fortuna, the goddess of fortune or chance, balances on a sphere and holds a sprig of flowers in her left hand. In addition to representing her instability, the sphere suggests the worldly domain over which she influences at random. The flowers, traditionally identified as Eryngium, held aphrodisiac powers, suggesting the fickle nature of love. A more recent interpretation identifies them as Sternkraut, a plant that symbolized the idea that one’s fate has already been written. Both readings of the engraving, whether it regards love or life, inform the viewer that destiny is not of one’s own choosing.
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