Object details
Accession number
P11e10
Primary Creator
Caleb Arnold Slade
(Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts)
Full title
A Girl of Nabeul
Creation Date
1921
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Caleb Arnold Slade on 12 November 1921 for $75, through the gallery of Seth Morton Vose, Boston.
Marks
Inscribed (upper right, in pencil): C. A. Slade [this signature is partially erased] / C. A. Slade
Inscribed (on a label, affixed to the frame): Girl of Nabeul #9
Stamped in ink (on a label affixed to the back): Charles Scribner's Sons, / Fifth Ave., N.Y., #3
Inscribed in ink (on a label affixed to the back): #3. Shyness of foreigners together with almost fanatic superstition is common to the children of Tunis. Offers of money or trinkets seldom will induce one of them to pose for an artist. This may be accomplished sometimes. Here the influence of an elder brother as was done in the case of the Arab girl on this page.
Printed (on a label affixed to the back): Returned from / Scribner's Magazine / Fifth Ave. at 48th St. New York...
Dimensions
26 x 21 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Oil on brown paper
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
Macknight Room
Bibliography
"Mr. Slade's Successful Exhibit." American Art News (19 November 1921), p. 12.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 248.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 342.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 74.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 239-40, 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.
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