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(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Story of Antiochus and Stratonica
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Story of Antiochus and Stratonica

painter (Verona, 1487 - 1553, Venice)
Date1545-1555
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions181 x 160 cm (71 1/4 x 63 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP26s3
eMuseum ID727094
EmbARK ObjectID12380
TMS Source ID1506
Last Updated11/14/24
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.
BibliographyNotesArt Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 3, no. 12.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 20. (as "Picture")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 54. (as The Consultation)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 216. (as The Consultation)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 31. (as an unknown scene with Woman in a Bed)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 32. (as The Magnanimity of Antigonus)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000).


ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Consiglio Ricchetti, Venice on 21 October 1892 for 5000 lire (as a pair with P26n5).
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