Object details
Object number
ARC.Marr.2059.a
Creator(s)
Thomas E. Marr
(Nova Scotia, 1849 - 1910, Boston)
Title
Red Drawing Room, 152 Beacon Street
Date
1900
Medium
Glass plate negative
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower left): B3
Provenance
Commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son in 1900.
Commentary
Before moving to the 4th floor of the museum, Isabella lived in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood at 152 Beacon Street. This photograph shows the 17th century German polychome sculpture of the Virgin and Child with a king and bishop saints (S28e3), in the Red Drawing Room at that home. Isabella later installed it in the Chapel of the museum, where it resides today.
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