(c) 2011 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Corner Panel

furniture maker Unknown

Date1760-1780

Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe

MediumPainted and gilded wood

Dimensions86 x 111 cm (33 7/8 x 43 11/16 in.)

ClassificationsFurniture

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberF18w3.5

eMuseum ID730116

EmbARK ObjectID13024

Original NumberF18e58-s

TMS Source ID2053

Last Updated8/14/24

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.

BibliographyNotesAlberto Salvagnini. "Il Palazzo Morosini in Venezia" in La Ressegna Nazionale 56, no. 12 (1890), pp. 143-151.
Jules Sambon and Charles Mannheim. Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement de Mme la comtesse Lauredana Gatterburg-Morosini, ... (Sales Enterprise of Italy: Venice, 15-21 May 1894), pp. 29-30, lot 343.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 135-36.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 142-45, 156, no. 52F.

ProvenanceNotesLoredana Gatterburg-Morosini (d.1884) by descent from her mother, Elisabetta Morosini Gatterburg, Palazzo Morosini on Campo Santo Stefano, Venice.
Auctioned by distant relatives after Loredana Gatterburg-Morosini's death through Jules Sambon (1836-1921) of the auction house Sales Enterprise of Italy with the co-operation of Charles Mannheim, expert in objets d'art, Venice, 15 – 22 May 1894, lot 343, unsold.
Acquired by the antique dealer Antonio Settini, Venice after failed to sell at auction in May 1894.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Antonio Settini on 28 September 1897 for 6400 lire (for suite of twenty-one pieces of furniture and paneling).