Object details
Accession number
P21s2
Primary Creator
Justus Suttermans
(Antwerp, 1597 - 1681, Florence)
Full title
Alfonso IV d'Este
Creation Date
1649
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Vincenzo Favenza, Venice for 1100 lire in November 1892 (as the Duke of Monmouth).
Dimensions
89.5 x 74.5 cm (35 1/4 x 29 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Dimension Notes
Frame: 122 x 108.9 cm (48 1/16 x 42 7/8 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
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Loan Collection of Portraits for the Benefit of the Associated Charities and the North End Union. Exh. Cat. (Copley Hall, Boston, March 1896), p. 39 no. 281. (as the Duke of Monmouth).
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 4, no. 5. (as the Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II of England)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 14. (as the Duke of Monmouth by Justus Sustermans)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), pp. 132-34.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 350-51, ill. (establishes the sitter can not be the Duke of Monmouth; renamed "A Young Commander")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 187.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 245-47, ill. (possibly Cosimo III de' Medici)
Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato. "Suttermans' Young Commander Identified." Fenway Court (1982), pp. 29-35, fig. 1 and 5. (as Alfonso IV d'Este and dated about 1649-1654)
Alice Jarrard. Architecture As Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 154-55, fig. 87. (as Alfonso IV d'Este and dated about 1650)
Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato. "Suttermans, Giusto." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 2014, http://www.oxfordartonline.com (as Alfonso IV d'Este and dated 1649)
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