Object details
Object number
P3w27
Creator(s)
Caleb Arnold Slade
(Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts)
Title
Ponte della Canonica, Venice
Date
1912
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 x 33 cm (16 1/8 x 13 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower right): C. A. Slade -- 12
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (with a second painting by Slade) from the American artist Caleb Arnold Slade (1882-1961) for $80 on 24 August 1915 (?).
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.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1920), p. 1. ("paintings...by Slade (2)")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 342.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 34.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 238-40, ill.
Julie Carlson Eldred et al. True Visions: The Paintings of C. Arnold Slade (1882-1961). Exh. cat. (Dennis, Massachusetts: Cape Museum of Fine Arts, 2001), p. 12.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 39.
Gallery
Blue Room
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