Isabella Stewart Gardner papers, 1760-1956

Collection Information

Size: 40 Microfilm reels

Summary: Letters, business records, diary, and photographs.

Biographical/Historical Note

Isabella Stewart Gardner was an art patron, collector, and museum founder in Boston, Mass. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Bernard Berenson was hired by Gardner to travel throughout Italy collecting Italian Renaissance art for her recreated Venetian palazzo in Boston. She established her palazzo as a museum of fine European art with stipulations that after her death none of the exhibited works was to be moved or rearranged, but left as she had designed during her lifetime.

Provenance

Microfilm lent by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for duplicating, 1972-1975.

Language Note

English .

Location of Originals

• Originals in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Mass.