Object details
Accession number
P15w20
Primary Creator
Italian, Milan
Full title
Three Women
Creation Date
15th century
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer A. Clerle, Venice for about 80 lire on 28 September 1897. (as Marco Zoppo?)
Marks
Inscribed (on the panel, verso, in pencil): Lo ritengo di Marco Zoppo / A. Carrer (I believe it is Marco Zoppo [Italian painter, 1433-1498])
Dimensions
21 x 13 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Tempera on panel
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
Early Italian Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1914 or later), p. 7. (as by Bramantino)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 241. (as Milanese (?), 15th century)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 101. (as probably Milanese, 15th century)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 246. (as Venice, 15th century)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 164, ill. (as Milanese (?), 15th century)
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