Object number2021.38.1

Woman, Window and Boy, Gardner Museum

Date1998

Artist Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba 1948)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver photograph

DimensionsImage: 18 x 22 3/8 in. (45.7 x 56.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 x 23 7/8 in. (50.8 x 60.6 cm)
Matted: 25 3/4 x 30 in. (65.4 x 76.2 cm)

Credit LineAnonymous gift

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn verso, signed lower left corner in pencil: ABELARDO MORELL

InscribedOn verso, by artist, lower right corner in pencil: WOMAN, WINDOW AND BOY / GARDNER MUSEUM, 1998

ProvenanceBonni Benrubi Gallery
DescriptionImage of two portraits from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Domenico Tintoretto's Portrait of a Lady in Black and Lorenzo di Credi's A Boy in a Scarlet Cap, joined alongside each other. On left is Tintoretto's half-length portrait of a young woman with a white ruff, a necklace featuring red stones and pearls, a ring, and pearls in her hair. She sits in front of a lush red and gold curtain with a book at her side and an open window at her right, revealing a clouded hilly landscape. At right, di Credi's portrait depicts a young boy from the chest up wearing a bright red tunic and cap. He's inside a plain interior and a window at his left reveals a background of grass and spare trees with water beyond. Both sitters are shown in a three corner turn and are positioned by Morell so they face one another.

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