Object details
Accession number
S30s27.4
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Angel Candlestick
Creation Date
17th century
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome on 22 March 1895 for 800 lire (for a set of four candlesticks).
Marks
Inscribed (lower edge): SCARL
Dimensions
69.9 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm (27 1/2 x 8 x 7 in.)
Display Media
Painted and gilded wood
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
Gothic Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 268.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 42 (16? Jun. 1963), p. 2.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 178, no. 253.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), p. 33, ill. p. 35, fig. 22.
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