Object details
Object number
S33w3
Creator(s)
John Donoghue
(Chicago, 1853 - 1903, New York)
Title
Young Sophocles
Date
about 1890
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
114.3 cm (45 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (left side of the base): SOPHOCLES (in Greek letters)
Inscribed (right side of the base): SALAMIS (in Greek letters)
Inscribed (back side of the base): F. BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur Paris
Inscribed (top of the base, right side): J DONOGHVE Sc
Inscribed (top of the base, behind the raised foot): 276
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the American artist John Talbott Donoghue (1853-1903), Venice on 21 July 1890 for £75.
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
"Two Sargents Added to Fenway Court Collection: Bronze by Donoghue Another Acquisition Seen by Visitors at Fall Opening of the Museum." Unknown newspaper. Boston, 1919.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 161, no. 204.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), pp. 40-41, ill.
Michael P. Quinlin. Irish Boston: A Lively Look at Boston's Colorful Irish Past (Guilford, Connecticut, 2004), pp. 91-92.
Thayer Tolles (ed.). American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865 (New York, 1999), p. 344.
Gallery
Vatichino
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