| Preview | Description | Artist | Notes
  |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Return From The Lido by Ralph Wormeley Curtis 1884 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Curtis, Ralph Wormeley |  Ralph Curtis’s painting of a gondola gliding through Venice must have held special meaning for Mrs. Gardner. Like the woman depicted, she and Curtis spent many hours in each other’s company floating through the canals. The slight touch of purple through the sky and in the water, along with the mysterious faces of the woman and her gondolier, adds... |
 | El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent 1882 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer |
Q. What is the meaning of El Jaleo?
I just
viewed a video called American Visions: the Gilded Age, done for PBS in 1997
written and narrated by Robert Hughes. In it he talks about El Jaleo. He says
it means the spontaneous clapping and shouting that comes like an
"Olay!" at the apex of a performance.
So what
we're seeing is the zenith of the... |
 | Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast by John Singer Sargent c. 1883 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer |
This
painting has an interesting provenance. Sargent had dedicated it to Madame
Gautreau's mother, Madame Anotole Avengno. Later it was bought by Dr. Pozzi,
whom reportedly had an affair with Madame Gautreau. It would eventually be
purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the estate sale of Pozzi.
Madame Pierre
Gauteau (Study)
... |
 | Isabella Stewart Gardner by John Singer Sargent 1888 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer |
Much of the
wealth of European art that American now has in its museums has a lot to do
with a small handful of very farsighted and eccentric art collectors during the
Gilded Age . Few of these were as eccentric and interesting as Isabella Stewart
Gardner (1840-1925).
She was
born the daughter of David Stewart, a business owner from New York... |
 | Mrs Gardner in White by John Singer Sargent 1920 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer |
he
following is from from Bert (The Pragmatic Romanticist):
. . .A
lovely watercolour of Isabella Stewart Gardner portraying her at age 82, after
her debilitating stroke in 1919. "Even I think it is exquisite", she
wrote of it. It is quietly intimate. I like it. It's from the book I have about
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a place that I... |
 | Study for El Jaleo (222) by John Singer Sargent c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (223) by John Singer Sargent c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (10252) by John Singer Sargent c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (10253) by John Singer Sargent c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Study for El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | Sargent, John Singer |
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
