Object details
Object number
P25w47
Creator(s)
Francesco Guardi
(Venice, 1712 - 1793, Venice)
Title
View of the Riva degli Schiavoni and the Piazzetta from the Bacino di San Marco
Date
1760s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 x 86.3 cm (20 1/16 x 34 in.)
Provenance
Collection of Lady Louisa Caroline Baring Ashburton (1827–1903), art collector and philanthropist, Grange Park, Hampshire by 1895.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London on 18 December 1895 for £1575 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
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
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 17.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 180-82.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 209-10.
Stuart Preston. "The Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 34.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 8 (24 Oct. 1965), p. 2.
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 174-75.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 96.
Antonio Morassi. Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi (Venice, 1973), p. 384-85, no. 393, fig. 418.
Frederico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner. Italian Piantings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School. (New York, 1973), p. 32.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 114-17.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 43-46, 48-49.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000).
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 58.
Linda J. Docherty. "Translating Dante: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Museum as Paradiso." Religion and the Arts (2018), p. 204.
Gallery
Veronese Room
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