(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Souvenir of Faust

painter Louis Kronberg (Boston, 1872 - 1965, Palm Beach)

Date1915

Place MadeUnited States, North America

MediumWatercolor on grey card

Dimensions29 x 22 cm (11 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP11s13

eMuseum ID720160

EmbARK ObjectID10831

TMS Source ID98

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella and her friend, artist Louis Kronberg, shared a love of the stage. Kronberg painted many performing artists including this ballet stage. Mrs. Gardner collected several of Kronberg’s paintings and works on paper and displayed them in the Museum. Kronberg also assisted Isabella in acquiring several works by French artists including Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.

BibliographyNotesPhilip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 196.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 66.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 37 (16 May 1965), p. 2.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 128.
Autumn Brown, "The Misattributed Ballerina: Louis Kronberg or Edgar Degas?" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 November 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/misattributed-ballerina-louis-kronberg-or-edgar-degas

MarksNotesSigned (lower right): Louis Kronberg
Inscribed (top right): L. K. - 1915

ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1915.