Roundel with Sorgheloos and Lichte Fortune

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Roundel with Sorgheloos and Lichte Fortune

Place of OriginPossibly Leiden, Netherlands

Dateabout 1520

Dimensionsdiam: 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm)

Mediumsilver stained colorless glass pane with viterous paint

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Rosenberg & Steibel, Inc.

Object number

1957.49

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

DescriptionSorgheloos and Lichte Fortune glass, medium brown and black paint with yellow and dark golden yellow silver stain.

Label TextPart of a moralizing series recounting the adventures of the popular Netherlandish character Sorgheloos (Carefree), this window would have decorated either a private home or a public building like a tavern. Sorgheloos sits at a table in a brothel, carelessly spending his money on women, drink, and gambling. He plays dice with a shabby seller of crullers, Lichte Fortune (Fickle Fortune), to whom he will lose his money.Published ReferencesFalke, O. V., Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, Munich, 1926, II, no. 114. (as Flemish, ca. 1540)

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 134, repr. (col.).

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," ART QUARTERLY, vol. 21, Spring 1958, p. 92, repr. p. 88 (as Flemish, c. 1540).

TOLEDO MUSEUM NEWS, summer 1960, New Series: vol. 3, no. 3, p. 50, repr. back cover (as Flemish, c. 1540)

Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass, a Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, 1969, repr. p. 53.

Husband, Timothy B., "'Ick Sorgheloose...': A silver -stained roundel in the Cloisters," METROPOLITAN MUSEUM JOURNAL, 24, 1989, p. 173, fig. 2, p. 175.

Husband, Timothy B., "Stained glass before 1700 in American collections: silver -stained roundels and unipartite panels," STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART, vol. 39, 1991, pp. 202, 203, repr.

Raguin, Virginia Chieffo and Helen Jackson Zakin, Stained glass before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest states, London, Harvey Miller, 2001, vol. 1, pl. 17 (col.); vol. 2, TMA 8, p. 229, 224-6, 244 and 245.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 134, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.