Object details
Accession number
F16n1.1-4
Primary Creator
Italian, Veneto
Full title
Set of Four Armchairs (Poltrone)
Creation Date
late 18th century
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1900.
Dimensions
88.9 x 61 x 53.3 cm (35 x 24 x 21 in.)
Display Media
Gilded wood
Web Commentary
This set of four gilded armchairs were made in the Veneto region of Italy in the late 18th century. Originally painted a brilliant robin's egg blue and trimmed in gold, they have been subsequently re-gilded four separate times.
Permanent Gallery Location
Raphael Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 110-11.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p. 133, no. 47.
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