Object details
Accession number
P15e11
Primary Creator
Lorenzo di Credi
(Florence, about 1456 - 1536, Florence)
Full title
A Boy in a Scarlet Cap
Creation Date
1468-1531
Provenance
Possibly with Counts Negroni, Rome in the 19th century. See the wax seal on the verso.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Thomas Sulley and Co., London on 4 January 1914 for $24,262 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Marks
Red wax seal (verso) with an impression of a coat of arms probably of the Counts Negroni of Rome.
Dimensions
46.5 x 34.5 cm (18 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on poplar panel
Dimension Notes
Frame: 58.4 x 46 cm (23 x 18 1/8 in.)
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
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 108-110.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Frederico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 110.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 64.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 508-509.
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