Object details
Accession number
S12w6
Primary Creator
Italian, Venice
Full title
Lion Couchant
Creation Date
14th century
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1902.
Dimensions
31.8 x 53.3 cm (12 1/2 x 21 in.)
Display Media
Marble
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
East, North, and West Cloister
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 81. (as Venetian, 15th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 174, no. 226. (as Venetian, 14th century)
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