Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel, Courtesy of Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
28.0 Fancy, Picturesque, and Ideal Figures

In the late eighteenth century the “fancy” figure developed as a genre of painting. These figures were meant to be picturesque renderings of children, such as girls selling flowers, boys engaged in chores, or old men whose physiognomy suggests either their faith or their defiance of death. Often such pictures had a moralizing undercurrent. Johnson did a few such figures, sometimes European figures dressed in quaint local costumes but in keeping with his times he moved toward realism. —PH

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Hills no. 28.0.4
Baur no. 130
Peasant Girl of Brabant
1863
Oil on canvas
15 x 12 1/4 in. (38.1 x 31.1 cm)
Signed and dated verso, upper left: E. Johnson/ –63 [according to Baur 1940; not visible during Hills examination, 1990, possibly due to relining]
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Peasant Girl of Brabant, 1863 (Hills no. 28.0.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1166 (accessed on March 28, 2024).