A Torso
artist
Dennis Miller Bunker
(Garden City, New York, 1861 - 1890, Boston)
Dateabout 1883-1884
Place MadeParis, Ile-de-France, France, Europe
MediumPencil on buff paper
Dimensions44 x 59.1 cm (17 5/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3w9
eMuseum ID722564
EmbARK ObjectID10993
TMS Source ID250
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.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue of an Exhibition of the Pictures of Dennis Miller Bunker. Exh. cat. (Boston: St. Botolph Club, 1891), no. 72. (entitled "Pencil Drawing from Antique")
Robert Hale Ives Gammell. Dennis Miller Bunker (New York, 1953), p. 15. (entitled "Torso of Ilissus")
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 65. (entitled "A Torso")
Efrat Adler Porat. Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890): Pioneer for American Impressionist Landscape. MA Diss. (Tufts University, 1984), pp. 22-23, 167, fig. 5. (entitled "Greek Sculpture", about 1882-1884)
H. Barbara Weinberg. The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers (New York, 1991), pl. 95. (entitled "A Torso")
Erica E. Hirshler et al. Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994), pp. 26-27, 170, fig. 4. (enitlted "Cast Drawing of the Torso of Ilissos"; 1883-1884)
Hilliard Goldfarb and Erica Hirshler. Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1995), pp. 20-21, no. 3. (entitled "Torso"; 1883-1884)
Robert Hale Ives Gammell. Dennis Miller Bunker (New York, 1953), p. 15. (entitled "Torso of Ilissus")
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 65. (entitled "A Torso")
Efrat Adler Porat. Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890): Pioneer for American Impressionist Landscape. MA Diss. (Tufts University, 1984), pp. 22-23, 167, fig. 5. (entitled "Greek Sculpture", about 1882-1884)
H. Barbara Weinberg. The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers (New York, 1991), pl. 95. (entitled "A Torso")
Erica E. Hirshler et al. Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994), pp. 26-27, 170, fig. 4. (enitlted "Cast Drawing of the Torso of Ilissos"; 1883-1884)
Hilliard Goldfarb and Erica Hirshler. Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1995), pp. 20-21, no. 3. (entitled "Torso"; 1883-1884)
MarksNotesInscribed (in Bunker's hand, lower right, in pencil): Ces torses sont la base de l'éducation / Il faut être nourri sur ces choses-là / dans sa jeunesse / Gérome / Beaux Arts (These torsos are the foundation of instruction. One must be suckled on these things in youth.)
Inscribed (upper left, in pencil): Bunker
Watermarked: MICHALLET
Inscribed (upper left, in pencil): Bunker
Watermarked: MICHALLET
ProvenanceNotesInstalled with a companion study of a sculpture (museum no. P3w10) in Cowles Art School, Boston after 1883.
Both studies were probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner after 1891.
Both studies were probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner after 1891.
