Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Patricia Hills
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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
Hills no. 44.4.2r
Baur no. 327
Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze
Alternate title: Eugene Leutze
c.1851
Locale: Düsseldorf, Germany
Charcoal and graphite, highlighted with white on brown paper
23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
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References
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. 327, as Eugene Leutze.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): May 28, 1971
Examination notes: Young, girlish-looking boy. Verso: Seated boy, arms folded. Also older man figure study (face not done). Media: Charcoal, touches of pencil highlighted with white.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Leutze, Eugene Henry Cozzens
Biography:
Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (1847–1931). Son of artist Emanuel Leutze, with whom Johnson painted in Düsseldorf. Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, 1907–1912. In 1942, the destroyer U.S.S. Leutze (DD-481) was named in his honor.
Leutze, Eugene
Keywords
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Record last updated October 22, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze, c.1851 (Hills no. 44.4.2r)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1028 (accessed on April 24, 2024).