Object details

Object number

ARC.010429

Creator(s)

• Unknown - photographer
• Unknown - artist

Title

"Portrait of a Young Gentleman before a Landscape"

Date

before 7 January 1901

Medium

Collodion print

Language

English

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Inscribed in pencil (upper): #43 original photo sent to ISG / Portrait of a Youth, Boltraffio
Inscribed in ink (lower right): Boltraffio

Provenance

Sent by American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 7 January 1901 for consideration for purchase. (as attributed to Boltraffio, currently attributed to an unidentified painter active in Lombardy, Italy)

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

Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 2016), pp. 243-244.

Rollin van N. Hadley. "What Might Have Been: Pictures Mrs. Gardner Did Not Acquire." Fenway Court (1979), p. 46, no. 43.

Gallery

Blue Room

Case

Berenson Case

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