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Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 44.4.4)

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[ 44.4 Euro Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents ]

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44.4 Euro Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents

Johnson continued drawing portraits in charcoal after he arrived in Europe. However, the currently located portrait drawings of children were all executed in The Hague, and those portraits returned to the United States. —PH

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Hills no. 44.4.4

Baur no. 340

Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier

Alternate title: Stephen A. F. Peletier

c.1851–55

Charcoal and graphite heightened with white on gray-beige paper

10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

Inscribed lower center in graphite: Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier; lower right: 15

Verso, upper right in graphite: Eastman Johnson; $10

The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Spark, 1944. Given in memory of Pfc. Donald W. Spark, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, born August 17, 1923, Long Branch, N.J. Killed in action, June, 1944 Saipan, Marianas Islands, and dedicated to the Fourth Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force. (44.197)

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Hills Examination/Opinion
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Description/Remarks

Newark Museum of Art object report, November 26, 2018: "Head of a young man with rather long dark hair; small white collar on his grey shirt, fastened by an oval brooch."

Markings

Nonextant label: J. Eastman Johnson / S.A.F.P.

Provenance

Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, by September 21, 1938 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)

Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York

Bernard H. Cone, New York, March 12, 1940 (by purchase)

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Spark, New York, until 1944

The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, 1944 (by gift)

References

Baur 1940

Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 75, no. 340, as Stephen A. F. Peletier.

Hills Examination/Opinion

Examination date(s): June 23, 1971; February 20, 2019

Examination notes: 2019: Delicate charcoal heightened with white chalk. Stump used to create highlights on hair. Translucent eyes. Seems to be a teenager.
LR. “15”. Lower center: Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier –

Sitter Biography

Sitter: Peletier, Stephen Andrew Florentine

Biography:

Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier (life dates unknown).

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Bust length »
- Head »
- Portrait »

Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 44.4.4)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1014 (accessed on October 12, 2024).