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Paul Bourget

photographer Benjamin Falk (New York, 1853 - 1925)

Dateabout 1890

Place MadeNew York City, New York, United States, North America

MediumAlbumen print

Dimensions16.8 x 10.8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.100008

eMuseum ID727136

EmbARK ObjectID24694

Other NumberP33e19

TMS Source ID9028

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryAuthor Paul Bourget met both Isabella Stewart Gardner and Henry James on separate occasions in 1884, the year after he published his first book of literary criticism. James was ambivalent about Bourget’s work, yet he encouraged the younger writer’s relationship with Gardner. When Bourget and his wife, Minnie, traveled to Boston in 1893, James wrote a letter of re-introduction to Gardner on behalf of “my distinguished & charming friends.”

MarksNotesPrinted in red ink (bottom): Falk 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top): Paul Bourget
Inscribed in pencil (verso, top right): Vatichino / Bookcase #4

ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.