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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Briggs Potter
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Briggs Potter

painter (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853 - 1935, London)
Dateabout 1903
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions79 x 63 cm (31 1/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3w11
eMuseum ID722374
EmbARK ObjectID10861
TMS Source ID128
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1905), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 299.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 32. (as about 1903)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 207-08, ill.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), p. 363.
ProvenanceNotesGift from Denman Waldo Ross to Isabella Stewart Gardner before 20 April 1905, possibly through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959).
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Denman Waldo Ross
1919
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Adolphe Braun & Co.
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1895
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Unknown
1700 -1750
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Rosa Bonheur
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