Head of a Putti
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Joseph Lindon Smith
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire)
artist after
Desiderio da Settignano
(Italian, died 1464)
Date1894
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions47.5 x 34.8 cm (18 11/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3n4
eMuseum ID720715
EmbARK ObjectID10894
TMS Source ID160
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryJoseph Lindon Smith made this study after one of the putti on the Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini at Santa Croce in Florence by Desiderio da Settignano exceuted between 1453-1461.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1. (entitled "Child's Head")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 345.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 34-35.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 241, 243, ill.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 22.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 345.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 34-35.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 241, 243, ill.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 22.
MarksNotesInscribed (lower right): FRoM THE ToMB oF / CARLo MARSVPPINI / IN S. CRoCE FLoRENCE / BY DESIDERIo / DA / SETTIGNANo / JOSEPH LINDON SMITH. / 1894
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), Venice for $200 on 19 September 1894.
