Object details
Accession number
P3s15
Primary Creator
Joseph Lindon Smith
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire)
Full title
Bust of Akhenaten
Creation Date
1908
Provenance
Collection of the painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), 1912.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1915.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left): Joseph.Lindon.Smith
Inscribed (on a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston label affixed to the frame): 1908
Dimensions
74 x 44 cm (29 1/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1908), pp. 77-78, 109.
Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith. Exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 1, no. 4. (probably refers to this painting)
Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith. Exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Museum of Art, 1912), p. 1, no. 7.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1920), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 344. (as after a bust now housed in Musée du Louvre, Paris, accession no. E 11076)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 27.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 241, 243, ill. (as after 8 April 1908)
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