Object details

Object number

SOn6

Creator(s)

Italian

Title

Guardian Lion

Date

19th century

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

78.7 x 123.8 cm (31 x 48 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as part of a set of matching lions, museum nos. SOn5-6) from the marble mason and dealer Francesco Dorigo, Venice for 3,500 lire in about 1897.

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

Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 3. (as gothic)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 168. (as "from Venice")
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 33 (12 Apr. 1964), p. 2.
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 57.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 180, no. 267, ill. 137. (as Italian, 19th century)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 33, fig. 31. (illustrated with the dealer photograph)

Gallery

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