Object details
Object number
ARC.003946
Creator(s)
Paolo Salviati
(Venice, 1818 - 1894)
Title
Palazzo Barbaro, Grand Canal, Venice
Date
late 19th century
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
19 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed (bottom edge): Pzo. Barbaro Po Salviati Venezia
Provenance
Probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice.
Commentary
Henry James stayed with Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Palazzo Barbaro, a historic home on the Grand Canal in Venice, for several weeks in 1892. The Gardners rented this palace seasonally from its expatriate American owners, Daniel and Ariana Curtis, who also counted James as a friend. Much to his delight, Gardner arranged for James to sleep in a four-poster bed draped with mosquito netting in the “divine old library—where I am fain to pass the livelong day.”
Bibliography
Nathaniel Silver (ed.), Titian's Rape of Europa (Boston, 2021), pp. 12, fig. 3.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.61, fig. 30.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard
Nina Wutrich, "Isabella's Bookworm Friendship with Veronon Lee," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 7 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-bookworm-friendship-vernon-lee
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