Object details
Object number
P28w16
Creator(s)
Jacopo Tintoretto
(Venice, 1519 - 1594, Venice)
Title
The Wedding Feast at Cana
Date
about 1545
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.4 x 95 cm (28 7/8 x 37 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts at an auction in Boston about 1888.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 1 April 1905 for $3,500. (as Tintoretto)
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.
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 362-63. (as Tintoretto)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 255. (as Tintoretto)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 199. (as attributed to Tintoretto)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 251-253. (as Tintoretto)
Rodolfo Pallucchini and Paola Rossi. Tintoretto: Le opere sacre e profane (Milan, 1982), p. 147, no. 99, fig. 126. (as Tintoretto)
Terisio Pignatti. "The Wedding Feast at Cana in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1987), pp. 40-45, no. 1. (as Tintoretto, about 1545-1546)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Tintoretto)
Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman. "Towards a New Tintoretto Catalogue,..." in Miguel Falomir (ed.). Jacopo Tintoretto (Madrid, 2009), p. 147, no. C44. (as Circle of Tintoretto)
Antonio Cierci. Banchetto divino (Padova, 2017), pp. 173, 196, fig. 3.
Gallery
Chapel
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