Object details
Accession number
F30s18
Primary Creator
French
Full title
Carved Chest: Virgin and Child with Saints
Creation Date
1520-1530
Provenance
Collection of Émile Gavet (1830–1904) by 1897.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Gavet sale at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris for 25,000 francs on 8 June 1897, lot 16, through Fernand Robert, her regular agent in Paris.
Dimensions
85 x 164 x 66 cm (33 7/16 x 64 9/16 x 26 in.)
Display Media
Oak
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
Gothic Room
Bibliography
Émile Gavet. Collection Émile Gavet: catalogue raisonné, précédé d'une étude historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui composent cette collection. Introduction texts by Émile Molinier (Paris, 1894), no. 17 and pl. 15.
Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance: tableaux, tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet (Paris, May 31-June 9, 1897), p. 15, lot 16. (as "Coffre," end of the 15th century)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 5, no. 12. (as Gothic)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 266. (as walnut, first half of the 16th century)
Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1981), 174-75, ill. (as oak, dating to about 1540-50)
Alan Chong. "Émile Gavet: Patron, Collector, Dealer" in Virginia Brilliant (ed.). Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection. Exh. cat. (Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Newport: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 2009), pp. 10, 11, 12 fig. 8, 13 fig. 9, 20 n. 71 (as oak, with the front panel dating to the 1520s, with later additions to the sides and top to make a chest)
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