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Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money.
Isabella Stewart Gardner: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 190 cm × 81.2 cm 74 + 13 ⁄ 16 in × 31 + 15 ⁄ 16 in: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts [14] Morning Walk: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 67.31 cm × 50.16 cm 26 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in: Private collection Mrs. Adrian Georg Iselin (Elanora O'Donnell) 1888 ...
Sargent later gifted nine of his charcoal drawings of McKeller to his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, who passed them on to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. [2] Gardner used a wheelchair, so on at least one occasion, McKeller carried her up the stairs of Sargent's third-floor studio in Back Bay. [1]
Gardner, whose museum was the target of the world's largest art heist, led an eccentric life with almost as many plot twists as the Netflix series.
Gardner appointed her secretary and the former librarian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Morris Carter (1877–1965) as the museum's first director. Carter catalogued the entire collection and wrote Gardner's definitive biography, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court. George L. Stout (1897–1978) was the second director. The father of ...
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Sargent's painting Capri (1878) depicts Rosina Ferrara dancing the tarantella, and anticipates the flamenco of El Jaleo. [6] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Almost 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, El Jaleo is broadly painted in a nearly monochromatic palette, but for spots of red at the right and an orange at left, which is reminiscent of the lemons Édouard Manet inserted into several of his ...
Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. [1] It is a study in opposition.