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(c) 2011 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Lyre-back Armchair (Poltrona con schienale con cartella a lira)
(c) 2011 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2011 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Lyre-back Armchair (Poltrona con schienale con cartella a lira)

furniture maker
Date1790-1799
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumPainted walnut
Dimensions84 x 53 x 45 cm (33 1/16 x 20 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF18n17.1
eMuseum ID717095
Original NumberF18n17-s
EmbARK ObjectID13286
TMS Source ID2271
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.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 141-42.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 164-65, no. 59.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner’s husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837–1898), from the antique dealer A. Clerle, Venice on 25 October 1892 for 160 lire (for set of four chairs).