Object details
Accession number
P3w27
Primary Creator
Caleb Arnold Slade
(Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts)
Full title
Ponte della Canonica, Venice
Creation Date
1912
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 (?).
Marks
Inscribed (lower right): C. A. Slade -- 12
Dimensions
41 x 33 cm (16 1/8 x 13 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, 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.
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