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Isabella Stewart Gardner |
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Willard T Sears |
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| 1900/00/00 |
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| 1903/00/00 |
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Charles Norton, the first professor of art history at Harvard University, sells his Venetian manuscript collection en bloc to Isabella Gardner. Dating from C15 to C18, most of the museums manuscripts are illuminated and survive in original bindings. |
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| 1903/01/00 |
John Singer Sargent |
Painter |
Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. |
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| 1903/01/00 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Benefactor |
Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. |
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| 1903/02/00 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Decorator |
Fenway Court opens to the public. The Gothic Room, which was not open, is dominated by Sargent's 1888 portrait of Gardner. The room was richly decorated according to her unique sensibilities with paintings, furniture, fabrics and architectural elements. |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
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| 1990/03/18 |
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Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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Govert Flinck's "Landscape with Obelisk" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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Vermeer's "The Concert" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
The Concert |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edgar Degas |
Artist |
Degas' "Cortege aux Environs de Florence" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Jean-Frederic Bazille |
Artist |
Degas's 12-by-8-inch charcoal sketch, "Program for an artistic soiree 2", is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
Artist |
"Rembrandt with Three Mustaches" is stolen from the ISG Museum. This tiny self-portrait, just 1.75 inches by nearly 2 inches high, is an etching showing the scraggly artist with a mustache, hair on his chin and a 'mustache' on the brim of his cap. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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A bronze eagle finial for a for a Napoleonic flagstaff and a Chinese Beaker or Ku are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edgar Degas |
Artist |
"Program for an artistic soiree 1", a 12-by-8-inch charcoal sketch by Edgar Degas, is one of five works by Degas stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edgar Degas |
Artist |
Degas's drawing "La Sortie de Pesage" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
Artist |
Rembrandt's "A Lady and Gentleman in Black" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Painted in 1633, the double portrait, where both figures on the same canvas, is a little over 4 feet high by 3.5 feet wide. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Bernardo Martorell |
Artist |
Degas's "Three Mounted Jockeys" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edouard Manet |
Artist |
Chez Tortoni by Edouard Manet (c 1878-1880) is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |