Object details
Accession number
1.3.o.28
Primary Creator
Henri Matisse
(Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869 - 1954, Nice)
Full title
Nude Woman Seated on a Table
Creation Date
about 1907
Provenance
Loaned to Isabella Stewart Gardner by the American scholar and archaeologist Thomas Whittemore (1871-1950), Boston on 7 February 1911 and officially given as a gift to her on 24 September 1923.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left, in graphite): Henri-MattiseInscribed (frame, label of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): 26.11 / Henri Matisse / Lent by Thomas Whittemore.
Dimensions
30.8 x 23.5 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Graphite on wove 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
Short Gallery
Bibliography
"Loans Recieved in 1911." Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 36 (Boston, 1912), p. 185. (as "Three Drawings by Matisse")
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 66.
Karen E. Haas. "Henri Matisse: 'A Magnificent Draughtsman.'" Fenway Court (1985), pp. 36-49, fig. 8. (as about 1907)
Anne McCauley in Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 221.
Marilyn Kushner et al. The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution. Exh. cat. (New York: New-York Historical Society, 2013), p. 386.
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