Object details

Accession number

3.3.r.127

Creators

• Anders Zorn (Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora) - primary
• Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston) - subject

Full title

Study for Isabella Gardner III

Creation Date

1894

Provenance

Gift from Anders Zorn to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1894.

Marks

Inscribed and signed (lower right): Miserable pencil sketch by Zorn

Dimensions

25.7 x 20.6 cm (10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Display Media

Pencil on paper

Dimension Notes

Frame: 51.6 x 40.4 cm (20 5/16 x 15 7/8 in.)

Web Commentary

Zorn was unhappy with this preparatory sketch for his etching of Gardner and softened the composition slightly by positioning Gardner off-center and turning her more to the side.

Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.

Permanent Gallery Location

Short Gallery

Bibliography

Michelle Facos. Swedish Impressionism’s Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum VI. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993), pp. 24-27.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 142-45, no. 21b.

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