Object details
Accession number
S5c3
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898), from the art dealers Antonio and Alessandro Jandolo, Rome with six other small antique sculptures (including museum no. S5s19) for a total of 5,000 francs on about 1 November 1897, through the art dealer Saturnino Innocenti.
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 44. (as Roman, 2nd century [AD]; limestone)
Karl Lehmann-Hartleben. Dionysiac Sarcophagi in Baltimore (Baltimore, 1942), p. 69, figs. 23, 26. (as Roman, a style transitioning from Hadrianic to Antonine; the portrait bust as 3rd century, made later than the majority of the sarcophagus; Greek island marble)
F. Matz. Ein Römisches Meisterwerk: Der Jahreszeitensarkophag Badminton--New York, Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Neunzehntes Ergänzungsheft (Berlin, 1958), p. 51, fig. 26. (Eastern, Asia Minor)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III. "Roman Sarcophagi in America: A Short Inventory" in Philipp von Zabern (ed.). Festschrift für Friedrich Matz (Mainz, 1962), pp. 89-109, no. 1. (as about 250 AD)
R. Turcan. Les Sarcophages romains a représentations dionysiaques. Essai de chronologie et d'histoire religieuse (Paris, 1966), p. 69, no. 2.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 46-47, no. 63. (as Greek imperial period, western Asia Minor type, about 250 AD; limestone)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III. "The Mosaic from Montebello near Rome: An Early Manifestation of the Seasons in Roman Imperial Art." Fenway Court (1981), p. 25, fig. 9. (as Greek imperial, western Asia Minor type, about 250 AD; limestone)
Janet Huskinson. Roman Children's Sarcophagi: Their Decoration and Its Social Significance (London, 1996), p. 22.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 2.
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