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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Entombment
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Entombment

sculptor (about 1490 - about 1540)
Date15th century - 16th century
Place MadeLimoges, Limousin, France, Europe
MediumEnamel
Dimensions20.5 x 17 cm (8 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsPlaques
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM27w28
eMuseum ID729394
EmbARK ObjectID12637
TMS Source ID1706
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.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 242-43. (as Nardon Pénicaud or Jean I Pénicaud, after Martin Schongauer)
 Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 93-94, fig. 46.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898) from the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich on 17 August 1897 for 5,200 marks.
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Nardon Pénicaud
15th century
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Jean Limousin I
late 16th century - early 17th century
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Paul Manship
1917
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
about 1300
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
early 19th century
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
early 19th century