Object details
Accession number
F28e6.1-5
Primary Creator
Italian, Northern Italy
Full title
Fifteen Choir Stalls (stalli di coro)
Creation Date
16th century
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Giuseppe Piccoli, Venice on 3 October 1900 for 5000 lire (including other objects) through Daniel S. Curtis (1825–1908), lawyer, banker and owner of Palazzo Barbaro, Venice.
Dimensions
265 cm (104 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Walnut and chestnut
Dimension Notes
Seat width: about 78 cm (30 11/16 in.); except for F28e6.1.a-c where the width of seats varies from 62.5 cm (24 5/8 in.); 72 cm (28 3/8 in.); 87 cm (34 1/4 in.)
Depth at arms: ranges from 49.5 to 55.6 cm (19 1/2 to 21 7/8 in.)
Web Commentary
Arranged around the stained glass window from Soisson cathedral are fifteen choir stalls, originating from a church of the Dominican order. While she was installing her new museum in 1900, Isabella Gardner required architectural elements to enhance the spaces. Her old friend in Venice, Daniel Sargent Curtis, found this set of choir stalls.
Permanent Gallery Location
Chapel
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p.24.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 256.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), pp. 286-288, no. 143.
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