Art, literature & history
Winged Fortune
1878
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 252 x 159.5 cm (99 3/16 x 62 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1970.54
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Morris Hunt. Winged Fortune. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Winged Fortune — William Morris Hunt. 1878.
Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: Unframed: 252 x 159.5 cm (99 3/16 x 62 13/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Winged Fortune is a study for a figure in The Discoverer, a mural that William Morris Hunt painted for the Assembly Chamber in New York's State Capitol in Albany. The mural presents Christopher Columbus in a boat; Winged Fortune stands behind him, her left hand holding the rudder while her right hand spreads the sail. Over time the murals badly deteriorated. Eventually, a new ceiling was added to the chamber, concealing them entirely, even to the present day.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.