Object details
Accession number
S20w6
Primary Creator
Alessandro Vittoria
(Trento, Italy, 1525 - 1608, Venice)
Full title
Neptune with Sea Horses
Creation Date
18th century-19th century
Provenance
Probably in the collection of the antiquarian and museum founder Count Piccinardi (d. 1762), Parma.
Sold with the Piccinardi collection in 1874
Purchased at the Piccinardi sale with several other small bronzes by the language professor Alberto C. Maggi (d. 1880), Boston on trip to Italy.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as the doorknocker from the palace gate of the Genoese mercanary and admiral Andrea Doria, 1466-1560) from the Maggi sale at Leonard & Co, Boston for $38 on 14 December 1880, lot 11.
Dimensions
46.5 cm (18 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Cast bronze
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
Second Floor Passage
Bibliography
Leonard & Co. Collection of antiques originally in the famous museum of Count Piccinardi (Boston, 14 December 1880), pp. 4, 11, lot 11.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 15. (as "Knocker...from the palace of Admiral Doria in Genoa")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 173. (as Italian, possibly Venetian, late 16th century)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 24 (14 Feb. 1965), p. 2. (as Venetian, late 16th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 155-56, no. 194. (as after Alessandro Vittoria, Venetian, 18th or 19th century)
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