Isabella Stewart Gardner
painter
Martin Mower
(Lynn, Massachusetts, 1870 - 1960, Vancouver)
photographerafter
Otto Rosenheim
(Germany, 1871 - 1955)
subject
Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Date1917
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions83 x 66 cm (32 11/16 x 26 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP17w44
eMuseum ID720323
EmbARK ObjectID11984
TMS Source ID1134
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryCopied from a photograph (P33w35) by the noted biochemist and amateur photographer Otto Rosenheim (1871-1955) possibly taken at the London home of Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor in 1906. The photograph was sent from Rosenheim to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 24 February 1910.
BibliographyNotesPhilip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 250. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 122. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 170, 172, ill. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)
Trevor Fairbrother. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986), p. 219.
Anne-Marie Eze, "Une Femme Bibliophile: Isabella's Book of Hours by Bourdichon," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 21 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/une-femme-bibliophile-isabellas-book-hours-bourdichon
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 122. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 170, 172, ill. (as 1917, after a photograph taken ten years before)
Trevor Fairbrother. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986), p. 219.
Anne-Marie Eze, "Une Femme Bibliophile: Isabella's Book of Hours by Bourdichon," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 21 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/une-femme-bibliophile-isabellas-book-hours-bourdichon
MarksNotesPrinted label (adherred to the back of the stretcher): Sold by Frost & Adams / No. 37 Cornhill Boston
ProvenanceNotesGift from the painter Martin Mower (1870-1960) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1917.
