Cassone Front: Two Portraits with Arms of the Orsini Family
furniture maker
Unknown
Datelate 19th century
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumPainted and gilded poplar, pine, and walnut
Dimensions74 x 188 x 6 cm (29 1/8 x 74 x 2 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF21n16
eMuseum ID722723
EmbARK ObjectID10994
TMS Source ID251
Last Updated8/14/24
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.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 175. (latter part of the 15th century)
Graham Hughes. Renaissance Cassoni: Masterpieces of Early Italian Art: Painted Marriage Chests, 1400-1550 (Polegate, Sussex, 1997), p. 23, ill.
Alan Chong. "The American Discovery of Cassone Painting." The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sarasota: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2009), p. 81, fig. 49.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p. 204, no. 90. (dated as late 19th century with some late 15th century elements)
Graham Hughes. Renaissance Cassoni: Masterpieces of Early Italian Art: Painted Marriage Chests, 1400-1550 (Polegate, Sussex, 1997), p. 23, ill.
Alan Chong. "The American Discovery of Cassone Painting." The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sarasota: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2009), p. 81, fig. 49.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p. 204, no. 90. (dated as late 19th century with some late 15th century elements)
MarksNotesMotto on scroll above Orsini arms: In virtutibus perserva [continue with courage, not recorded in the Orsini family mottos]
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Attilio Simonetti (1843–1925), Galleria Simonetti, Rome on 1 November 1897 for 1,200 lire through the painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863–1950).
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