Furnishing or Garment Fabric
maker
Unknown
Date1475-1525
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumSilk, cut voided velvet, shot and brocaded with gilt yarn
Dimensions152.4 x 58.4 cm (60 x 23 in.)
ClassificationsFurnishings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberT27w62
eMuseum ID726151
Alt. No. 1 (Siple)058
EmbARK ObjectID12403
Alt. No. 2 (Cavallo)125
TMS Source ID1528
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryAmerican painter John Singer Sargent used this Italian voided velvet as inspiration for the background in his portrait of Mrs. Gardner in the Gothic Room on this floor. In his rendering of the textile he enlarged the scale of its pattern some two or three times.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 237-38.
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 167, no. 125.
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. "Mrs. Gardner's Renaissance." Imaging the Self in Renaissance Italy. Fenway Court (1990-1991), pp. 10-30, no. 7.
Catherine M. E. Guth. "Dress, Self-Fashioning and Display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" in Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (London, 2015), p. 121, pl. 14.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
Adolph S. Cavallo. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1986), p. 167, no. 125.
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt. "Mrs. Gardner's Renaissance." Imaging the Self in Renaissance Italy. Fenway Court (1990-1991), pp. 10-30, no. 7.
Catherine M. E. Guth. "Dress, Self-Fashioning and Display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" in Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (London, 2015), p. 121, pl. 14.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1888.
