(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Palazzo Barbaro, Grand Canal, Venice

photographer Paolo Salviati (Venice, 1818 - 1894)

Datelate 19th century

Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe

MediumAlbumen print

Dimensions19 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.003946

eMuseum ID726352

EmbARK ObjectID24715

TMS Source ID9048

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryHenry James stayed with Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Palazzo Barbaro, a historic home on the Grand Canal in Venice, for several weeks in 1892. The Gardners rented this palace seasonally from its expatriate American owners, Daniel and Ariana Curtis, who also counted James as a friend. Much to his delight, Gardner arranged for James to sleep in a four-poster bed draped with mosquito netting in the “divine old library—where I am fain to pass the livelong day.”

BibliographyNotes

Nathaniel Silver (ed.), Titian's Rape of Europa (Boston, 2021), pp. 12, fig. 3.

Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.61, fig. 30.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard

Nina Wutrich, "Isabella's Bookworm Friendship with Veronon Lee," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 7 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-bookworm-friendship-vernon-lee

MarksNotesPrinted (bottom edge): Pzo. Barbaro Po Salviati Venezia

ProvenanceNotesProbably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice.