Object details
Object number
ARC.007895
Creator(s)
Title
Catalog for Fenway Court Annotated by Isabella Stewart Gardner with Enclosures
Date
1914-1915
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand: Fenway Court - / in which are modern paintings; beginning on / the left / jacques. Delacroix, / Bunker, [illeg], Zorn, Besnard, / Bunker, Sargent / Early Italians - / Cosimo Turin [SIC] / underneath these 3 - / [illeg] - / then continuing round the room, / Masaccio, Pessellino, Boccacou, / [illeg] Lorenzo di Credi, Pesselino, / Matteo da gualdo, under there on table / Gentile Bellini; above are five Saints by / Simone Martini - / continuing round the room, old Gothic picture/ = [illeg] by Gainsboro - between windows / San Antonio by + [illeg] by Vanni.
Inscribed in pencil: San Antonio in [illeg] by Lorenzo di Niccolo / (circa 1410 - 20 - ) / Triptych in long gallery by / Jacopo di Ru[illeg]
Inscribed in ink in Bernard Berenson's hand (enclosure): Dormition is by / B. Caporali / Bishop by is by Gian/bono - / 3 little Saints / is close to / Bramantino / Catherina Sforza (?) / praying at the / Tomb of a Saint is by / Leonardo / Scaletti - / Vetrullo ??? / Over door Raphael / room / P.T.O
Inscribed in ink in Bernard Berenson's hand (enclosure): Fresco Musician / by Felice Bresa- / lorci about / 1560 / Domenico Tintoretto / son of Jacopo / portr. of Venetian / Lady. / Sanchez Coello
Inscribed in ink: Brach. / Giottos [illeg] is des / Romagna / S. Antonio in [illeg] by / Lorenzo di Niccolo / (ca 1410 - 20)
Inscribed in pencil (upper): from / which / on the left / left is / hung with yellow silk. / a
Inscribed in pencil (upper): + Madonna by / Biccicliheri /
Inscribed in pencil (upper); S. Antonio by / Lorenzo di Nicoli - / Triptych by Jacopo di Rimmini - [illeg] / of Brach - Giotto's / scliule ne Roinagueu. / at Joe's / Madonna + Child / Gentile Fabriano
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Pietro Lorenzetti [illeg]
Inscribed in ink (right): Pictures
Inscribed in pencil (upper): giambono [?] / Caterina Sforza - Scaletti
Inscribed in pencil (upper): all the pictures marked now / in "Early Italian" room - / Early / Italian
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): the
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): E.J.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Lorenzo / di Credi / Carporali / Biaccacclin [?]
Inscribed in pencil (upper left): instead of
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): Portrait / by Scorel
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): Landscape by / Rembrandt
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