Neckwear & Eyewear
Black Insect Shield Scarf
$29.95
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This soft, over-sized scarf will become your favorite take-along accessory. Ideal throughout hot-weather months thanks to its lightweight fabric, wear it as a shawl or wrap to cover your shoulders and torso; drape it over your legs at the dinner table, or simply wear it around your neck! At the beach, at the ballpark, around town or around your family, the Insect Shield summer scarf offers versatile protection from insects wherever you go, and however, you choose to wear it, or use it! The Insect Shield protection is built right in and lasts the expected lifetime of the product and repels mosquitoes, ticks, ants, flies, chiggers, and midges.
Made of 80% polyester and 20% cotton
Active ingredient is permethrin 0.52%
Measures 70" x 38"
Chariot of Venus Scarf
$47.00
Francois Boucher (French, 1703 - 1770), The Chariot of Venus, 18th centuryPainter to King Louis XV, François Boucher defined artistic tastes at the French court. He is best known for mythological paintings like this one, the compositions of which reached audiences far and wide through tapestry, porcelain, and print.
Gardner purchased this painting from Wildenstein and Co., venerable dealers of French art. She paid a fraction of the price of her most expensive Italian paintings. Gardner collected few Rococo works; perhaps she sought to fill the void in her collection with this one. It was installed in the Little Salon by 1912, along with a second painting of similar style and an embroidery made from Boucher’s designs, an apparent homage to the French master.
33 x 51 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Dormition and Assumption Silk Scarf
$160.00
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin
1430-1434
Fra Angelico, Italian, about 1400-1455
Fra Angelico’s technical and compositional innovations paved the way for a more modern manner of painting in Florence, and he found favor with important patrons, including two popes. This panel is the third in a set of four reliquaries, or containers for holy relics, depicting episodes from the Virgin’s life.
Nineteenth-century enthusiasts celebrated this Dominican painter “Fra Angelico” (the angelic friar) for the spiritual content and lyrical quality of his work. Most of his paintings in the United States are the surviving fragments of larger works, but this one is nearly intact and was greatly admired in Boston. Gardner’s friend the American painter John La Farge, whose works can be found in the Blue Room, once reminded her that even Robert Langton Douglas, a British art critic and director of the National Gallery of Ireland, praised Gardner’s Fra Angelico in his writings.
33.5" x 45"
El Jaleo Eyeglass Case
$20.00
El Jaleo1882
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Images like El Jaleo lean toward the daring, risky, unconventional, dramatic, erotically off-center, and odd. Because nomadic groups were believed to ignore ethical principles and exalted superstition over orthodox religion, they endured oppression in numerous countries during the nineteenth century, but artists and bohemians idealized them as free spirits. Bizet's opera Carmen, first performed in Paris in 1875, scandalized the public with its tale of a proud, lusty Andalusian protagonist torn between an army officer and a toreador.
During his travels in Spain in 1879, Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Romani music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris, he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader definition of jaleo, which includes ruckus or hubbub. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of the Gypsies).
The best evidence of his own excited reactions to live dance performances can be found in the pencil sketches of a Spanish woman that he included in an album assembled for Isabella Stewart Gardner. They are among his fastest, most intuitive works. In one drawing, a torrent of fast hard lines suggests the twisting shawl from which a majestic neck and outstretched vamping arms emerge.
This beautiful hardshell eyeglass case features the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent. The work's tombstone information is printed in silver on the inside of the case. The plush black lining and included microfiber cloth and will keep your glasses safe and smudge-free.
6.5 x 1.5 x 3 inches
El Jaleo Scarf
$47.00
El Jaleo
1882
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Images like El Jaleo lean toward the daring, risky, unconventional, dramatic, erotically off-center, and odd. Because nomadic groups were believed to ignore ethical principles and exalted superstition over orthodox religion, they endured oppression in numerous countries during the nineteenth century, but artists and bohemians idealized them as free spirits. Bizet's opera Carmen, first performed in Paris in 1875, scandalized the public with its tale of a proud, lusty Andalusian protagonist torn between an army officer and a toreador.
During his travels in Spain in 1879, Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Romani music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris, he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader definition of jaleo,which includes ruckus or hubbub. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of the Gypsies).
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
El Jaleo Silk Scarf
$160.00
El Jaleo
1882
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Images like El Jaleo lean toward the daring, risky, unconventional, dramatic, erotically off-center, and odd. Because nomadic groups were believed to ignore ethical principles and exalted superstition over orthodox religion, they endured oppression in numerous countries during the nineteenth century, but artists and bohemians idealized them as free spirits. Bizet's opera Carmen, first performed in Paris in 1875, scandalized the public with its tale of a proud, lusty Andalusian protagonist torn between an army officer and a toreador.
During his travels in Spain in 1879, Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Romani music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris, he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader definition of jaleo,which includes ruckus or hubbub. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of the Gypsies).
100% Silk
Fern Glasses Pouch
$31.95
Expertly designed with a double-sided shimmer velvet print and a soft cotton interior, the Fern Glasses Pouch offers stylish storage for sunglasses and glasses.
Measures 7.48"H x 3.93"W
Waterproof lining
Made in England
Floral Bowtie
$45.00
Bowtie Behavior is a genderless bow tie brand created to bridge the gap between affordability and style while helping people feel good when they look in the mirror. Bowtie Behavior creates pieces that are bold and flavorful - pieces that outfits are built around.
Every Bowtie Behavior tie is handmade with care with high-quality fabrics.
Adjustable neck strap measures 18"L
Bowtie measures 3"L x 4.5"W
Girl with a Lute Scarf
$47.00
A Girl with a Lute
1520
Bartolomeo Vento, Italian, active 1502-1513
The lute and the song for tenor and bass lying open on the sill signify the artist's ambition to transcend the conventions of painting and produce a song-haunted mood. This lyrical idea overran Lombardy and Venice in the early sixteenth century and had been quickly brought to its most moving pitch at Venice in the light and color of Giorgione. Here somber shadow prevails, under the influence of the more mystic Leonardo. The picture was painted presumably in Milan, where there are still three versions, two of them by Bartolommeo himself, one of these bearing the same date.
33 x 42 inches100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Hummingbird Velvet Eye Mask
$37.00
Wake-up and smell the luxury! This Hummingbird Eye Mask in aqua features fabulous florals, rich tones, and everyone’s favorite hummingbird character to create the most gorgeous luxury lavender velvet eye mask this season. Vibrant in design with a cute matching drawstring velvet bag!
Made with 100% polyester velvet
Measures 3.93" x 7.87"
Isabella Scarf
$47.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1888
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Mrs. Gardner sat for Sargent during his visit to Boston in January 1888. He was paid $3000 for the portrait, which was exhibited to great acclaim at Boston’s St. Botolph Club. The work also inspired gossip and legend: someone jokingly titled it “Woman: An Enigma,” while others believed that the sensuous display of flesh deliberately echoed the scandal recently created by Sargent’s Madame X. Mrs. Gardner herself said that she rejected eight renderings of the face until she was satisfied.
In its gallery, surrounded by altarpieces, stained glass, and religious statuary, the sacramental quality noted by nineteenth-century reviewers is even more pronounced.
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Mickalene Thomas Scarf
$162.00
Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate, collage-inspired paintings, embellished with rhinestones, enamel, and colorful acrylics. Her depictions of African American women explore a spectrum of black female beauty and sexual identity while constructing images of femininity and power. Mickalene's practice often examines interior and exterior environments in relation to the female figure, drawing upon references for 70s pop culture.
This delicate silk embodiment of Mickalene Thomas' A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007) communicates complex notions of femininity, power, identity and the relationships between.
Featuring an all-over print with hand-rolled edges, the scarf provides a way to carry Thomas' work with you wherever you go.
Measures 51" x 39.3"
Nasturtium Eyeglass Case
$20.00
This beautiful hardshell eyeglass case features the painting Nasturtiums by Jan I Voerman. The plush black lining and included microfiber cloth and will keep your glasses safe and smudge-free.6.5 x 1.5 x 3 inches
Nasturtium Scarf
$47.00
Based in Somerville, MA, Printed Village regularly issues challenges to artists around the world, creating unique and wearable designs from their submissions.The Nasturtium Scarf design is the winning style from a Gardner Museum-inspired challenge, created by UK-based artist Natalia Gonzalez. Participating artists drew inspiration from the Gardner Museum's Nasturtium tradition.
Isabella Stewart Gardner started the tradition of placing colorful displays of Nasturtium vines that cascaded from the courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring.
75 x 37 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Orchid Glasses Pouch
$31.95
Expertly designed with a double-sided shimmer velvet print and a soft cotton interior, the Orchid Glasses Pouch offers stylish storage for sunglasses and glasses.
Measures 7.48"H x 3.93"W
Waterproof lining
Made in England
Raqib Shaw Neck Tie
$55.00
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The Raqib Shaw Neck Tie features a detail of Shaw's That Night in Xanadu When the Birds Were Set Free. This piece is featured in the Gardner Museum's exhibition Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West. This contemporary cut slim tie was created exclusively for the Gardner Museum.
Measures 3"W x 57.5"L
Finished in Fall River, MA
Raqib Shaw Scarf
$55.00
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The Raqib Shaw Scarf features details from Shaw's The Adoration (After Jan Goessaert). This piece is featured in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's exhibition Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West. The scarf was created exclusively for the Gardner Museum.
Made of lightweight poly-blended viscose
Measures 24"W x 80"L
Finished in Fall River, MA
Hand wash and air dry
Rembrandt Self Portrait Silk Scarf
$160.00
Self-Portrait, Age 23
1629
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-1669
Rembrandt’s self-portraits, made throughout his long career, served many different purposes, and in these explorations of his own face and personality remain elusive in many ways. This is one of his first painted self-portraits, and unlike most of the earlier ones, it is not a study of expression or emotion. Indeed, the face, though beautifully lit with evocative shadows, is almost expressionless. The painting is all about costume: the plumed cap, silk scarf, and jacket suggest that this might be an elegant sitter, perhaps even an historic personage. The painting is large and carefully finished, almost as though it were a demonstration piece. In 1629, Rembrandt had not yet received any portrait commissions, so this work might have been done to show off his talents.
On the other hand, by 1629, the twenty-three-year-old artist had already begun to attract critical attention. Self-portraits were a desirable collectible for sophisticated connoisseurs, especially since Rembrandt here wears a golden chain, which indicates the status or nobility of the painter’s profession, although he had not received any such decoration.
100% Silk
Return from the Lido Scarf
$47.00
Return from the Lido
1884
Ralph Wormeley Curtis, American, 1854-1922
Ralph Curtis was the son of Daniel and Arianna Curtis, Bostonians who moved permanently to Venice in the late 1870s. After graduating from Harvard (where he was one of the founders of the Lampoon), Curtis studied in Paris at the studio of Carolus-Duran. There he met John Singer Sargent, a distant relative, who became a good friend and sometime painting companion. Curtis met Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1884, when the Gardners spent five weeks in Venice. Thereafter, they met and corresponded frequently. Curtis found works of art for Mrs. Gardner, wrote about developments in the art world, and kept her up-to-date on “gondola gossip” in Venice.
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 the perfect tone of languid, exotic atmosphere to the scene.
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Tent in the Rockies Silk Scarf
$160.00
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925), A Tent in the Rockies, about 1916
Sargent began many of his watercolors with careful pencil drawings that laid out the overall composition of each picture. If you look closely you can see traces of pencil in the folds of the tent’s opening. Light and shade effects, however, were rarely indicated through pencil under-drawings. Sargent would leave that to the skill of his brush in mixing colors, giving his watercolors their fresh beauty.
100% Silk
Watercolor Bowtie
$45.00
Bowtie Behavior is a genderless bow tie brand created to bridge the gap between affordability and style while helping people feel good when they look in the mirror. Bowtie Behavior creates pieces that are bold and flavorful - pieces that outfits are built around.
Every Bowtie Behavior tie is handmade with care with high-quality fabrics.
Adjustable neck strap measures 18"L
Bowtie measures 3"L x 4.5"W
Young Lady of Fashion Scarf
$47.00
A Young Lady of Fashion
early 1460's
attributed to Paolo Uccello, Italian, 1397-1475
The portrait has a highly decorative quality in which costume and ornament play a major role. The rather flatly modeled face is placed on an insubstantial bust set against a uniform blue background. The woman is portrayed both according to literary notions of female pulchritude, which called for fair skin and blonde hair, and the dictates of contemporary fashion. Costly brocaded fabrics, pearls, and precious stones serve not only to display the sitter’s familial wealth and status but also to enhance her physical appearance – in art, as in life. In addition to a red and gold brocade sleeve and a sleeveless overdress, the woman wears a head brooch, a pearl choker with jeweled pendant, and a white cap ornamented with pearls.
This fashionable beauty looks impassive, immobile, and immutable, as if she were outside space and time. Her portrait image has a static, stereotyped character, in which the sitter’s individuality is almost entirely suppressed in favor of the social ideals for which she stands.
In August 2018, choreographer, painter, dancer, and director Shen Wei transformed the Artist-in-Residence apartment at the Museum into a working studio. Wei was introduced as a young child to a variety of traditional Chinese art forms including opera, watercolor, and ink drawing. Today he is an artist who moves freely across mediums to find spiritual meaning in an increasingly material world. One of the works he was drawn to during his residency is the A Young Lady of Fashion, located in the Long Gallery. This Renaissance portrait, painted in profile, has a striking resemblance to a member of the Shen Wei Dance Arts. The encounter with this artwork inspired Shen Wei and ultimately led to the creation of Passion Spirit, a film shot at the Museum and at the Arnold Arboretum the following Summer.
33 x 51 inches100% Polyester
Machine Washable
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