Object details
Accession number
P3w2
Primary Creator
Charles Émile Jacque
(Paris, 1813 - 1894, Paris)
Full title
Sheep in the Shelter of the Oaks
Creation Date
about 1870
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898), from the gallery Doll & Richards for $650 on 27 January 1873.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left): Ch. Jacque
Inscribed (on a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston label affixed to the frame): Artist, Jacque / Subject, / Mrs John L. Gardner Jr. / Date of loan, April 26, '80 / 152 Beacon St
Stamped (on back of canvas): UN DAME DE LORETTE / OTTOZ FRERES / DE COULEURS UN TOILES a TABLEAU / PARIS
Stamped (on back of stretcher): G & C 6746
Dimensions
65 x 53 cm (25 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
"Contributions to the Loan Exhibition for the Year 1880." Museum of Fine Arts, Fifth Annual Report (Boston, 1881), p. 23.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 53.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 193.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 27.
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 55.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 125, ill.
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