Object details

Object number

P3s29

Creator(s)

Albert Besnard (Paris, 1849 - 1934, Paris)

Title

A Lady with a Rose

Date

before 1892

Medium

Pastel on gray paper

Dimensions

54 x 44 cm (21 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Inscribed (left, level with the woman's mouth): ABesnard (the initials in monogram)

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.

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

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.

Gallery

Blue Room

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