Object details
Accession number
P1e9
Primary Creator
Joseph Lindon Smith
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire)
Full title
Gaston de Foix
Creation Date
about 1894
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the artist on 19 September 1894 for $200.
Marks
Inscribed (top left): Gaston de Foix
Signed (top right): Joseph Lindon Smith.
Dimensions
38 x 53 cm (14 15/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Watercolor on 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
Yellow Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1.
Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith of Boston. Exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1905), p. 6, no. 30.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 345.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 19-20.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 241.
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), pp. 21-22, fig. 19.
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