Object details
Object number
P11s13
Creator(s)
Louis Kronberg
(Boston, 1872 - 1965, Palm Beach)
Title
Souvenir of Faust
Date
1915
Medium
Watercolor on grey card
Dimensions
29 x 22 cm (11 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Additional Dimensions
Frame: 31.4 x 24.1 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed (lower right): Louis Kronberg
Inscribed (top right): L. K. - 1915
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1915.
Commentary
Isabella and her friend, artist Louis Kronberg, shared a love of the stage. Kronberg painted many performing artists including this ballet stage. Mrs. Gardner collected several of Kronberg’s paintings and works on paper and displayed them in the Museum. Kronberg also assisted Isabella in acquiring several works by French artists including Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 196.Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 66.Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 37 (16 May 1965), p. 2. Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 128. Autumn Brown, "The Misattributed Ballerina: Louis Kronberg or Edgar Degas?" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 November 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/misattributed-ballerina-louis-kronberg-or-edgar-degas
Gallery
Macknight Room
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