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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. 44.4.3
Baur no. 328
Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze
Alternate titles: Eugene Leutze; Portrait of a Young Boy; Portrait of Eugene Leutze as a Child
1854, March 1
Locale: Düsseldorf, Germany
Charcoal and brown chalk on brown paper
23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (59.1 x 41.9 cm)
Initialed and dated lower right: E. J./Dusseldorf/Mch.1.1854–; lower center: Eugene Leutze
Provenance
Association of American Artists, Philadelphia
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939 (by purchase)
Harry G. Sperling, New York, by March 1958
[Vose Galleries, Boston, c. March 13, 1958]
Private collection, New York, July 28, 1961 (by purchase)
Florence and Ralph Spencer, by 2004
Doyle, New York, December 1, 2004, Property of the Estates of Florence and Ralph Spencer, lot 190; did not sell
[Doyle, New York, May 3, 2005, lot 2015]
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 328, as Eugene Leutze.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.
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Record last updated February 7, 2022. 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, 1854, March 1 (Hills no. 44.4.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1029 (accessed on April 28, 2024).