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Shoebox accompanying pair of Purple Satin Slippers

maker Unknown

Dateabout 1900

Place MadeParis, Ile-de-France, France, Europe

MediumPaper

ClassificationsBoxes

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberSP1954.1.x

eMuseum ID716945

Textile Database Number455

EmbARK ObjectID20355

TMS Source ID7048

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.

BibliographyNotesHilliard Goldfarb and Susan Sinclair. Isabella Stewart Gardner: Woman and the Myth. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), p. 35, no. 13. (as French, late 19th century-early 20th century)

MarksNotesInscribed (on a label on the shoebox): Chapelle, Cordonnier pour Dames 85 Rue de Richeliu, Paris (printed) / Madam Gardner 1 P Souliers Satin Vert from Claudia Potter 12 Richgrain Ave[?] Antsham[?] [this box may have held a different pair of shoes; a note in pencil on the shoebox cover refers to a pair of "Mrs. Gardner's green shoes"]

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Chapelle, a Parisian maker of fine women's shoes, at an unknown date.
Gift from Isabella Stewart Gardner to her goddaughter, Mrs. Henri Raffy (Katharine Foote, about 1882-1970).
Gift from Mrs. Henri Raffy to Ethel D. Evans (b. 1885), a teacher at the Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts.
Gift from Ethel D. Evens to Claudia A. Potter, drama teacher at the Perkins School for the Blind, 1950.
Presented by Claudia A. Potter to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston on 27 October 1954.