Pair of Armchairs (Poltrone)
furniture maker
Unknown
Date1700-1725
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumWalnut
Dimensions84.6 x 56 x 44.5 cm (33 5/16 x 22 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF21e8.1-2
eMuseum ID725524
EmbARK ObjectID15349
Original NumberF21e8-s; F21e16-s
TMS Source ID3933
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. 189.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 203, no. 89.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 203, no. 89.
ProvenanceNotesCollection of musician Anna Vernon (1835–1912), Palazzo Landi Bruchi, Siena.
Gift from Anna Vernon to her relative Abigail Adams Angier (1845–1910), Washington DC in 1903.
Purchased by Louise Thoron Endicott (1864–1958), wife of William Crowninshield Endicott (1826–1900), jurist and Secretary of War, from Abigail Adams Angier in Washington DC, March 1903.
Gift from Louise Endicott to Isabella Stewart Gardner,1920–1924.
Gift from Anna Vernon to her relative Abigail Adams Angier (1845–1910), Washington DC in 1903.
Purchased by Louise Thoron Endicott (1864–1958), wife of William Crowninshield Endicott (1826–1900), jurist and Secretary of War, from Abigail Adams Angier in Washington DC, March 1903.
Gift from Louise Endicott to Isabella Stewart Gardner,1920–1924.
