Reading
artist
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Date1893
Place MadeSweden, Europe
MediumEtching on wove paper
DimensionsAdditional Dimension (framed): 20 3/4 x 16 3/16 in. (52.7 x 41.1 cm)
37.1 x 28.4 cm (14 5/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.2.o.153
eMuseum ID728990
Original Number4.1.r.146
EmbARK ObjectID14087
TMS Source ID2915
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis intimate domestic scene of Marion Deering reading to her husband is one of Zorn’s finest double portraits. Wearing a bandage to conceal an eye injury, Charles Deering sits in the background listening intently and smoking a pipe. A wealthy Chicago businessman, Deering shares the title of Anders Zorn’s greatest American patron and friend with Isabella Gardner. Like Gardner, Deering first met Zorn at the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair, and started collecting his work on the spot.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013.
BibliographyNotesSven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 112, ZG78.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 148-9, no. 23.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 148-9, no. 23.
MarksNotesSigned and dated in plate (lower right corner): Zorn 189[3]
Inscribed in graphite (lower margin): till Isabella S. Gardner den Stora från Zorn
Inscribed in graphite (lower right corner): 148
Inscribed in graphite (verso, lower left corner): A.78
Inscribed in graphite (lower margin): till Isabella S. Gardner den Stora från Zorn
Inscribed in graphite (lower right corner): 148
Inscribed in graphite (verso, lower left corner): A.78
ProvenanceNotesGift from Anders Zorn to Isabella Stewart Gardner after 1893.
