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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from London
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from London

correspondent (Butrimonys, Lithuania, 1865 - 1959, Florence)
Date1 August 1894
Place MadeLondon, Greater London, England, Europe
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions18 x 22 cm (7 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.006190
eMuseum ID721617
EmbARK ObjectID32059
Other NumberU3e148
TMS Source ID15632
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryWhen it came to Isabella Stewart Gardner’s love of Italian paintings, Bernard Berenson knew how to seduce her with a carefully written sales pitch. Both benefited. She acquired the first painting by Botticelli in America, and he reaped a handsome commission.
BibliographyNotesRollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), p. 39.