Catalog for Fenway Court
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
publisher
Merrymount Press
(active Boston, 1893-1949)
Date1914-1915
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsArchival Material
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.007896
eMuseum ID723352
EmbARK ObjectID33670
TMS Source ID17152
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink: Fenway Court / The entrance to the exhibition / leads on the left to a small / room, hung with yellow / damask. On the walls are / modern paintings (beginning / on the left) by Dewing, Diaz, / Sargent, Ziern, Dante Gabriel / Rosetti, Whistler, Degas / Portrait de Mme Gaujelin / Whistler, / J. Appleton Brown, Matisse, / Martin Mower, La Farge, / Joseph Lindon Smith + Kronberg.
Inscribed in ink: Opposite the foot of stairs fine / Gothic Madonna in stone. 1522. / Byzantine altar stones set into / wall on stairway. / First Gallery. / Enter the room of Early Italian / Paintings through door of / Florentine Intarsia work. Turn - / ing to the right the paintings / are by Mantegna, Leonardo Scaletti, / Cosimo Tura, over them Agnolo / Gaddi, under then B. Caporali. / Continuing round the room / Massaccio, Pesellino, / Bacchiacca; over these /
Inscribed in pencil (bottom margin): Paintings, marked thus [?] / are in the Early Italian Room
Inscribed in ink: From the Raphael Room you / pass through the short gallery / where are etchings, portraits + / textiles, to / The Tapestry Room. / Here are two sets of Flemish / tapestries. / On table in window a / painting of Santa Ingracia / by Vermejo. / Backing it portrait of / Innocent X. by Velasques. / Pass from this room to
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): Earls of / Arundel / afterward / Duke of Naples
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): Landscape / by / Rembrandt.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): gift of Porf. C.E. Norton
Inscribed in ink: Piero dei Franceschi. / Beyond the door are paintings / by Lorenzo di Credi, Pesellino, / Matteo da Gualdo; above them / five paintings by Simone / Martini. / Continuing round the room, / a Bishop by Giamboro; over / it old Gothic picture. / Between the windows San / Anonio enthroned by Lorenzo di Noccolo. circa 1410 - 20. / Below triptych by Vanni.
Inscribed in ink: In the room on the right / of the antechamber are / modern paintings by / Manet, J.L. Smith, Rosa / Bonkeur, Denman Ross, / Jacques, Delacroix, Bonheur. / J.L. Smith, Sargent, / La Farge, Zorn, Curtis, Smith, / Five MacKnightd + water colour / by Sargent; then continuing round the room Ross, Courbet, Lockwood, Andersen, Slade, / J. Vanmeer, McComas, Cushing, / W. James, Corot, Zorn, + / Sargent.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Little chandelier from Deacon House / Domenico Veneziano / [illeg] gren velvet copes [?] / bought from Villegas.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): In corner at right / Portrait of St. Philip Neri / Italian ivory crucifxi, / Old Italian [illeg] and silver / incense box / my fine old censor. / The St. Margaret over door into Corridor, + the three series / of Sts. over stalls, Madonna + St. John in corners, bought in / Munich (with Gericke). St. Christopher (in torch) from Hoopman / 2 little silver lamps, over Madonna in alcove, gift of Therdore Dwight. Tintoretto sketch (was Prof. Norton's) also portrait of man. / Copy of Duchess of Urbino by Piero degli Franceschi.
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): almost identical with / one by him on / tomb in S. Miniato.
Inscribed in pencil (bottom margin): From the Taillernad Collection, Paris.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Lastly, pass through the / Cloisters into the Spanish / Cloister, where is / "El Jaleo" by / J.S.Sargent
Inscribed in ink: Opposite the foot of stairs fine / Gothic Madonna in stone. 1522. / Byzantine altar stones set into / wall on stairway. / First Gallery. / Enter the room of Early Italian / Paintings through door of / Florentine Intarsia work. Turn - / ing to the right the paintings / are by Mantegna, Leonardo Scaletti, / Cosimo Tura, over them Agnolo / Gaddi, under then B. Caporali. / Continuing round the room / Massaccio, Pesellino, / Bacchiacca; over these /
Inscribed in pencil (bottom margin): Paintings, marked thus [?] / are in the Early Italian Room
Inscribed in ink: From the Raphael Room you / pass through the short gallery / where are etchings, portraits + / textiles, to / The Tapestry Room. / Here are two sets of Flemish / tapestries. / On table in window a / painting of Santa Ingracia / by Vermejo. / Backing it portrait of / Innocent X. by Velasques. / Pass from this room to
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): Earls of / Arundel / afterward / Duke of Naples
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): Landscape / by / Rembrandt.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): gift of Porf. C.E. Norton
Inscribed in ink: Piero dei Franceschi. / Beyond the door are paintings / by Lorenzo di Credi, Pesellino, / Matteo da Gualdo; above them / five paintings by Simone / Martini. / Continuing round the room, / a Bishop by Giamboro; over / it old Gothic picture. / Between the windows San / Anonio enthroned by Lorenzo di Noccolo. circa 1410 - 20. / Below triptych by Vanni.
Inscribed in ink: In the room on the right / of the antechamber are / modern paintings by / Manet, J.L. Smith, Rosa / Bonkeur, Denman Ross, / Jacques, Delacroix, Bonheur. / J.L. Smith, Sargent, / La Farge, Zorn, Curtis, Smith, / Five MacKnightd + water colour / by Sargent; then continuing round the room Ross, Courbet, Lockwood, Andersen, Slade, / J. Vanmeer, McComas, Cushing, / W. James, Corot, Zorn, + / Sargent.
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Little chandelier from Deacon House / Domenico Veneziano / [illeg] gren velvet copes [?] / bought from Villegas.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): In corner at right / Portrait of St. Philip Neri / Italian ivory crucifxi, / Old Italian [illeg] and silver / incense box / my fine old censor. / The St. Margaret over door into Corridor, + the three series / of Sts. over stalls, Madonna + St. John in corners, bought in / Munich (with Gericke). St. Christopher (in torch) from Hoopman / 2 little silver lamps, over Madonna in alcove, gift of Therdore Dwight. Tintoretto sketch (was Prof. Norton's) also portrait of man. / Copy of Duchess of Urbino by Piero degli Franceschi.
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): almost identical with / one by him on / tomb in S. Miniato.
Inscribed in pencil (bottom margin): From the Taillernad Collection, Paris.
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Lastly, pass through the / Cloisters into the Spanish / Cloister, where is / "El Jaleo" by / J.S.Sargent
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1926
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1914-1915
