La Fortune was one of the first works by Camille Claudel to be produced by Eugène Blot, alongside Entreaty and Fireside Dream. Sixteen copies were produced. Although it was exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1904 and at Blot’s gallery the following year, the sculpture received little attention in the press, except for a beautiful tribute by a writer known as Zakouski in La Vie Parisienne: "a small Fortune, which seems, with its finesse and power, like some Watteau nude slipping away from a block of Rodin".