Object details
Accession number
F21e8.1-2
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Pair of Armchairs (Poltrone)
Creation Date
1st quarter of the 18th century
Provenance
Collection of musician Anna Vernon (1835–1912), Palazzo Landi Bruchi, Siena.
Gift from Anna Vernon to her relative Abigail Adams Angier (1845–1910), Washington DC in 1903.
Purchased by Louise Thoron Endicott (1864–1958), wife of William Crowninshield Endicott (1826–1900), jurist and Secretary of War, from Abigail Adams Angier in Washington DC, March 1903.
Gift from Louise Endicott to Isabella Stewart Gardner,1920–1924.
Dimensions
84.6 x 56 x 44.5 cm (33 5/16 x 22 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Walnut
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 189.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 203, no. 89.
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