Object details

Accession number

S30s27.4

Primary Creator

Italian

Full title

Angel Candlestick

Creation Date

17th century

Provenance

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome on 22 March 1895 for 800 lire (for a set of four candlesticks).

Marks

Inscribed (lower edge): SCARL

Dimensions

69.9 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm (27 1/2 x 8 x 7 in.)

Display Media

Painted and gilded wood

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

Gothic Room

Bibliography

Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 268.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 42 (16? Jun. 1963), p. 2.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 178, no. 253.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), p. 33, ill. p. 35, fig. 22.

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