Object details
Accession number
ARC.100008
Primary Creator
Benjamin Falk
(New York, 1853 - 1925)
Full title
Paul Bourget
Creation Date
about 1890
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Printed in red ink (bottom): Falk 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top): Paul Bourget
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top right): Vatichino / Bookcase #4
Dimensions
16.8 x 10.8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Albumen print
Web Commentary
Author Paul Bourget met both Isabella Stewart Gardner and Henry James on separate occasions in 1884, the year after he published his first book of literary criticism. James was ambivalent about Bourget’s work, yet he encouraged the younger writer’s relationship with Gardner. When Bourget and his wife, Minnie, traveled to Boston in 1893, James wrote a letter of re-introduction to Gardner on behalf of “my distinguished & charming friends.”
Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
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