Object details
Accession number
P27e24
Primary Creator
Domenico Tintoretto
(Venice, 1560 - 1635, Venice)
Full title
A Procurator of San Marco
Creation Date
late 16th century
Provenance
Collection of Girolamo Manfrin and his son, Pietro Manfrin, about 1800-1871.Purchased by Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1871.Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 1 April 1905 for $3,500. (as Tintoretto)
Marks
Inscribed (on a blue paper label on the top back of the stretcher): GALLERIA MANFRIN [engraved and the engraved signature] G [?] Manfrin
Inscribed in brown pen and ink (on an engraved label, back of stretcher): E. No. 21 GM
Inscribed (on a label, back of stretcher): CE Norton Esq. 1
Inscribed (on a label, back of stretcher, top, fragmentary): C. E. Norton. Venice, 1871
Inscribed (on a label, back of stretcher, top): 536;
Inscribed (on a label, back of stretcher, top, fragmentary): Norton No. 4
Inscribed (on an exhibition label, back of stretcher, bottom, fragmentary): title, name of owner and residence: Cambridge
Dimensions
48 x 40.5 cm (18 7/8 x 15 15/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
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
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 365-66. (as after Tintoretto)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 245. (as after Tintoretto)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 27 (7 Mar. 1965), p. 2. (as after Tintoretto)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 199. (as after Tintoretto)
Paola Rossi. Tintoretto: I Ritratti (Milan, 1974), p.105, under no. A8. (as after Tintoretto)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 255. (as after Tintoretto)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000).
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