Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729)
Title:: Allegory of Fortune
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Label on verso, lower left: “Owner Mellon, Mr. Paul | Artist Nebot, Balthasar | Title An Allegory of Fortune | National Gallery of Art PM 6671”; lower center: “Leger Galleries | Art [...] | 13 Old Bond Street [...] | Established 1892 | Title Allegory of Fortune. | Date February, 1969. | Old and Modern Masters | Early English Watercolours”; upper left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | [handwritten] Mellon | 89 | [typed] <081>”
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1976.7.60
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: anger | greed | fighting | misfortune | bridge | yoke | leisure | palettes | demons | chains | stocks (torture device) | poor | gathering | coins | monarchs | blindness | orb | sacks | sash | nude | woman | wealth | reaching | throwing | religious and mythological subject | allegory | men | red | crowd
Currently On View:: On view
Exhibition History:: In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 170-171, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:294