Edward Burne-Jones · 1875–83
The Wheel of Fortune
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A giant spoked wheel turned by the draped, downcast goddess Fortune, carrying three male nudes: a slave at the top, a crowned king, and a laurelled poet at the foot. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Up to 12 × 24.5 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune is an oil painting on canvas made between 1875 and 1883, measuring 200 x 100 cm. It combines classical and medieval themes in an allegory of the vagaries of life. It was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1883 and acquired that year by Arthur Balfour. The prime version has been in the Musée d'Orsay since 1980.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
All Edward Burne-Jones prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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