Object details
Accession number
P3s29
Primary Creator
Albert Besnard
(Paris, 1849 - 1934, Paris)
Full title
A Lady with a Rose
Creation Date
before 1892
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Albert Besnard, Paris for 2,000 francs around April 1892, after she saw it at the eighth annual Société de Pastellistes Français show at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
Marks
Inscribed (left, level with the woman's mouth): ABesnard (the initials in monogram)
Dimensions
54 x 44 cm (21 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
Display Media
Pastel on grey paper
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Société de Pastellistes Français, huitème anné: exposition annuelle. Exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1892), p. 8. (either no. 2 "Portrait de Mlle. M.D." or no. 3 "Portrait de Mlle. L.")
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 2. (entitled "Woman's Head (pastel)")
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), p. 8.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), pp. 125-26.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 44.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 31.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 26, ill.
Christine Gouzi. "Collectionner Albert Besnard aux États-Unis: amateurs, donateurs et philanthropes" in Christine Gouzi (ed.). "Le Temps d'Albert Besnard." L'Atelier: Bulletin de l'association (2007), pp. 52, 68, no. 15.
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