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(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Singer Sargent Painting in the Gothic Room
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Singer Sargent Painting in the Gothic Room

primary (Boston, 1856 - 1945)
subject (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Date1903
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumPlatinum print
Dimensions16.2 x 13.7 cm (6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.006294
eMuseum ID717039
EmbARK ObjectID26371
Other NumberP27w19.4
TMS Source ID10172
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryAlthough the Gothic Room was closed to the public, Gardner allowed her friends access to the gallery. John Singer Sargent used the space as a studio in which to paint the double portrait of Gretchen Warren with her daughter now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BibliographyNotesDavid McKibbin. Sargent's Boston, with an Essay and Biographical Summary and a Complete Check List of Sargent's Portraits (Boston, 1956), pp. 47-50, fig. 32.
Louisa Hall Tharp. Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1965), p. 250.
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Who's Laughing in the Gothic Room?" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 May 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/whos-laughing-gothic-room
ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from John Templeman Coolidge to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1903.