(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Henrik Ibsen

photographer Daniel Georg Nyblin (Norway, 1826 - 1910)

Date1898

Place MadeNorway, Europe

MediumAlbumen print

Dimensions13.8 x 9.5 cm (5 7/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP27e55

eMuseum ID724067

EmbARK ObjectID24298

TMS Source ID8860

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryAfter the opening of her museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s friends frequently presented her with photographs of authors, artists, and other luminaries for display in the archival cases. Norwegian diplomat Fredrik Herman Gade sent her this autographed portrait of the famous playwright because he “thought it might interest you...[my] country recognizes his valuable services as a reformer whose writings have caused far reaching changes...especially in the alterations of woman’s—most particularly wife’s—position in society.”

MarksNotesPrinted (lower left): Nyblin
Printed (center): Eneret 1894
Printed (right): Kristiania
Signed (verso): Henrik Ibsen

ProvenanceNotesGift from the Norwegian diplomat Fredrik Herman Gade (1871-1934), Chicago to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 24 September 1906.