Object details
Object number
P17w44
Creator(s)
Title
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Date
1917
Medium
Oil on canvas
Provenance
Gift from the painter Martin Mower (1870-1960) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1917.
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed label (adherred to the back of the stretcher): Sold by Frost & Adams / No. 37 Cornhill Boston
Dimensions
83 x 66 cm (32 11/16 x 26 in.)
Commentary
Copied from a photograph (P33w35) by the noted biochemist and amateur photographer Otto Rosenheim (1871-1955) possibly taken at the London home of Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor in 1906. The photograph was sent from Rosenheim to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 24 February 1910.
Gallery
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 250. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 122. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 170, 172, ill. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)Trevor Fairbrother. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986), p. 219.Anne-Marie Eze, "Une Femme Bibliophile: Isabella's Book of Hours by Bourdichon," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 21 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/une-femme-bibliophile-isabellas-book-hours-bourdichon
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