Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed on plate (lower left): Zorn
Signed in pencil (lower margin): Zorn
Dimensions
23.7 x 16 cm (9 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Etching
Web Commentary
Swedish artist Anders Zorn first came to America as the commissioner of the Swedish art exhibition at the Chicago's World Fair in 1893. It was there that he met two women who would become important patrons for him: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Bertha Palmer. Mrs. Palmer was the President of the Board of Lady Managers for the Fair and was responsible for exhibits in the Women's Building. She chose Zorn to paint her portrait, now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. He later made this etching of her which is one of many acquired by Isabella.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Christine Stansell. "Women Artists and the Problem of Metropolitan Culture: New York and Chicago, 1890-1900." Cultural Leadership in America, Art Matronage and Patronage. Fenway Court, vol. 27 (Boston, 1997), pp. 25-37, no. 1.
Sven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 144, ZG207.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), p. 138, no. 20.
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Swedish artist Anders Zorn first came to America as the commissioner of the Swedish art exhibition at the Chicago's World Fair in 1893. It was there that he met two women who would become important patrons for him: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Bertha Palmer. Mrs. Palmer was the President of the Board of Lady Managers for the Fair and was responsible for exhibits in the Women's Building. She chose Zorn to paint her portrait, now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. He later made this etching of her which is one of many acquired by Isabella.
