Object details

Accession number

ARC.Marr.2059.a

Primary Creator

Thomas E. Marr (Nova Scotia, 1849 - 1910, Boston)

Full title

Red Drawing Room, 152 Beacon Street

Creation Date

1900

Provenance

Commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son in 1900.

Marks

Inscribed (lower left): B3

Display Media

Glass plate negative

Web Commentary

Before moving to the 4th floor of the museum, Isabella lived in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood at 152 Beacon Street. This photograph shows the 17th century German polychome sculpture of the Virgin and Child with a king and bishop saints (S28e3), in the Red Drawing Room at that home. Isabella later installed it in the Chapel of the museum, where it resides today.

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