Object details
              Object number
        F30s13.1-4
            Creator(s)
              
                      Italian, Lombardo-Veneto
                    
        
                    Title
        Set of Four Armchairs (Seggiolone)
                    Date
        17th century
                    Medium
        Walnut and cherry
                                                  Dimensions
        142 x 66 x 58 cm (55 7/8 x 26 x 22 13/16 in.)
                                Provenance
        Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner’s collection at an unknown date.
                    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.
                    Bibliography
        Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 267. (late 16th or early 17th century)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 9 (27 Oct. 1963), p. 2.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 302, no. 150.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), pp. 28-33, ill. p. 35, fig. 23; p. 56, no. 4.
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Who's Laughing in the Gothic Room?" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 May 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/whos-laughing-gothic-room 
                    Gallery
        Gothic Room
                  
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