Object details
Object number
P3s23
Creator(s)
Antonio Mancini
(Albano Laziale, 1852 - 1930, Rome)
Title
The Standard Bearer of the Harvest Festival
Date
1884
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
165 x 85 cm (64 15/16 x 33 7/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed (?) with red crayon (lower right): A Mancini Roma
Undated label (on back of frame) with Isabella Stewart Gardner's address at 152 Beacon Street, Boston.
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Antonio Mancini for 1,000 francs in 1884, with the assistance of the American painter and collector Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922).
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 3, no. 8.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 8.
John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), pp. 9, 87, 91-93.
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 151. (date of Gardner's purchase unknown)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 218-19, ill. (purchased before 1885 through Curtis and Venice)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 30. (apparently purchased Italy through Curtis before 1885)
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 6. ("Mr. Curtis must have arranged the purchase")
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 26 (24 Feb. 1963), pp. 1-2.
Dario Cecchi. Antonio Mancini (Turin, 1966), p.155.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 148.
John La Farge and August F. Jaccaci (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings on American Private Collections. (New York and London, 1979), I, pp. 87-93. (Marx erroneously states that it was painted for Gardner around 1897)
Janice H. Chadbourne, Karl Gabosh, and Charles O. Vogel. The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record, 1873-1909 (Madison, CT, 1991), pp. 261 and 426. (possibly exhibited at the Boston Art Club, 17 January-14 February 1885)
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 217.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 12, 77, 79, 97-98, 238, fig. 51-52.
Manuel Carrera. "Antonio Mancini in Inghilterra. Il rapporto con John Singer Sargent." Storia dell'Arte 133, no. 33 (2012), pp. 154-55, fig. 3.
Gallery
Blue Room
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