Object details

Object number

2.a.2.3.7

Creator(s)

Nicolò Padanin (active Venice, about 1665)

Title

Ducale Brief

Date

1665

Medium

Ink on vellum

Language

Italian

Publication Place

Venice

Provenance

Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (as one of ten ducal briefs, with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)

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.

Gallery

Long Gallery

Case

Dante Case

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