Object details
Accession number
P3n10
Primary Creator
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Full title
Study for Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice
Creation Date
1894
Provenance
Gift from Anders Zorn to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1894.
Dimensions
15 x 15 cm (5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Pencil and red chalk on paper
Dimension Notes
Frame: 34 x 20 x 2 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
Web Commentary
This delicate little sketch of Isabella may have been a preparatory drawing for Anders Zorn’s portrait in oil, in the Short Gallery on the second floor. As in the final version, Gardner’s face is portrayed from the right; with her open mouth and curious look, she seems to engage directly with us.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 2. (as "Pastel")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 37.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 67.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 80-83, no. 1b.
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