Object details

Accession number

P21n12

Provenance

Purchased by the art dealers Colnaghi & Co. from the sale of the collection of Pedro de Alcantára Téllez-Gíron Fernandez de Santillán, 13th Duke of Osuna (1812-1900), Madrid on 11 May 1896, lot 33.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Colnaghi & Co., London for £4,000 in January 1897 through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).

Dimension Notes

Frame: 142.1 x 120.2 cm (55 15/16 x 47 5/16 in.) approx.

Bibliography

Exposiciòn Y Venta de Los Cuadros Y Demás Objetos de Arte de la Casa Ducal De Osuna (Madrid, 11 May 1896), p. 6, lot 33.
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 6, no. 4.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 16. (as "Portrait of the Duchess Ossuna")
John La Farge et al. Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, Vol. I (New York, 1907; reprint 1974), pp. 136-37, 223-27, ill.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925), p. 162.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 138-39, ill. (as "A Lady with a Rose")
Gustav Gluck. Van Dyck, des meisters Gemälde (New York, 1931), p. 450.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 175-76. (as possibly a member of the Ducal House, Osuna)
Tancred Borenius. "Addenda to the Work of Van Dyck." The Burlington Magazine (December 1941), p. 203.
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 58.
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 162-63, ill.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 84-86, ill.
John Walsh Jr. "Paintings in the Dutch Room" in James Thomas Herbert Baily (ed.). The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" (London, 1978), p. 57, fig. 8.
Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1981), pp. 88-89.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 57, 73-76, 78-80, 82.
Hilliard Goldfarb. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History (Boston, 1995), pp. 100-101, ill.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 140-41, ill. (the sitter as possibly a member of the Killigrew family)
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), pp. 67, 81.
Linda J. Docherty. "Translating Dante: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Museum as Paradiso." Religion and the Arts (2018), pp. 203-204.

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