Object details
Accession number
S9n4
Primary Creator
French, Western France
Full title
Capital or Impost Block: Daniel in the Lions' Den (?)
Creation Date
1125-1135
Provenance
Likely created for the same unknown French Romanesque church as the stylistically similar impost block, museum no. S9n2.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the collection of Emile Peyre (1828-1904), Paris with two similar objects (museum nos. S9n2 and S9n3) for 1,100 francs on 17 July 1897, through Fernand Robert, her regular agent in Paris.
Dimensions
25.4 x 54 x 40 cm (10 x 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Limestone
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
East, North, and West Cloister
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 3. (as "French Gothic")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 61-62. (French, Romanesque period, probably 12th century)
Walter Cahn. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. IV. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston." Gesta (1969), p. 50, no. 4. (as Western France, beginning of the 2nd quarter of the 12th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 74, no. 104.
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