Object details
Accession number
S5s29.1-11
Primary Creator
Full title
Rim of a Fountain: Tritons and Friezes
Creation Date
16th century - 17th century
Description
Friezes include: Tritons, dolphins, shells, harpies, masks, cornucopias, baskets of fruit
Provenance
Isabella Stewart Gardner designed the fountain rim with eleven of those fragments on 18 September 1901.
Dimensions
616 x 198.1 cm (242 1/2 x 78 in.)
Display Media
Sandstone
Dimension Notes
Tritons average: 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18 x 18 in.)
Friezes average: 33 x 121.9 cm (13 x 48 in.)
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
Courtyard
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as "Venetian fountain")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 45. (as several pieces of 17th century carving, probably Venetian)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 155, no. 193. (as Venetian, 17th century)
Pieranna Cavalchini and Amanda Esteves-Kraus (eds.). Portrait (Boston, 2012), p. 60. (quoting the diary of Willard T. Sears on 17 Sept. 1901)
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