“Mrs. (Isabella Stewart) Gardner in White’’ (1922), by John Singer Sargent.
“Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.’’
— Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), American art collector, philanthropist, and patroness of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, which has a spectacular collection, though slightly less so after the world’s greatest art theft, in 1990. Its perpetrators have not been caught.