Object details
Accession number
T27w62
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Furnishing or Garment Fabric
Creation Date
1475-1525
Description
Leaves, Pomegranates
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1888.
Dimensions
152.4 x 58.4 cm (60 x 23 in.)
Display Media
Silk, cut voided velvet, shot and brocaded with gilt yarn
Web Commentary
American painter John Singer Sargent used this Italian voided velvet as inspiration for the background in his portrait of Mrs. Gardner in the Gothic Room on this floor. In his rendering of the textile he enlarged the scale of its pattern some two or three times.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 237-38.
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 167, no. 125.
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. "Mrs. Gardner's Renaissance." Imaging the Self in Renaissance Italy. Fenway Court (1990-1991), pp. 10-30, no. 7.
Catherine M. E. Guth. "Dress, Self-Fashioning and Display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" in Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (London, 2015), p. 121, pl. 14.
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