Object details
Accession number
SOn2
Creators
- Sarah Wyman Whitman (Lowell, Massachusetts, 1842 - 1904, Boston) - primary
- Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston) - designer
- John Evans And Company (active Boston, 19th century) - stone carver
Provenance
Commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Sarah Wyman Whitman, Boston to design her seal with her motto "C'est Mon Plaisir" in about 1900.
Marks
Inscribed (banner): CEST MON PLAISIR (it's my pleasure)
Bibliography
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 188. (as designed by Isabella Stewart Gardner)
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), p. 41, ill.
Francis G. Hutchins. "Stained Glass Pragmatism: Sarah Wyman Whitman's Lowell Window at First Parish, Brookline, Massachusetts." First Parish Church in Brookline, website (2009), p. 2, n3. (as designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman, commissioned by Isabella Gardner)
Pieranna Cavalchini and Amanda Esteves-Kraus (eds.). Portrait (Boston, 2012), p. 25. (quoting the Diary of Willard T. Sears, 23 Nov. 1900; as "from a drawing made by Mrs. Whitman")
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