Object details
Accession number
P3e20
Primary Creator
Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl
(Passau, Bavaria, 1855 - 1932, Boston)
Full title
Self-Portrait
Creation Date
about 1910
Provenance
Painted for the Tavern Club (founded 1884), Boston about 1910, where it remained until the outbreak of the First World War, when Gaugengigl resigned from the club.
Collection of Gaugengigl, about 1914-1920.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the artist for $2,000 on 12 February 1920.
Marks
Inscribed (upper right): I.M. GAUGENGIGL
Inscribed (on the top of the frame, verso): Prendergast 1909 [date has also been read as "1908"]
Dimensions
75 x 62 cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16 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
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1921), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 150. (as about 1909)
"Ignace Gaugengigl, Artist, Dies Here: Once Refused to Accept Bequest of $50,000." Boston Herald (3 August 1932).
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 28.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 95, ill. (as presumably about 1910)
John Head. "Framing Society." Social Register Observer (Winter 2001), pp. 90-91, ill. (about 1910)
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