Object details
Accession number
P3w11
Primary Creator
Denman Waldo Ross
(Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853 - 1935, London)
Full title
John Briggs Potter
Creation Date
about 1903
Provenance
Gift from Denman Waldo Ross to Isabella Stewart Gardner before 20 April 1905, possibly through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).
Dimensions
79 x 63 cm (31 1/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1905), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 299.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 32. (as about 1903)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 207-08, ill.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), p. 363.
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