Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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[ 31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women ]

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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women

Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH

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Hills no. 31.3.63

Catherine Law Zabriskie

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University title: Catherine Law Zabriskie (1815–1892)

1892

Oil on canvas

29 15/16 x 25 in. (74.5 x 63.5 cm)

Neither signed nor dated

Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Gift of Frederick Wessels Bogert and his wife Jane Zabriskie Bogert (0334)

Provenance

Mary Bogert Wessels (Mrs. John M.) Pell, New York, daughter of the sitter, 1892 (by commission)

Frederick Wessels Bogert and Jane Zabriskie Bogert

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (by gift)

Sitter Biography

Sitter: Zabriskie, Catherine Law (Mrs. Wessel Wessels)

Biography:

Catherine Law Zabriskie (1814–1892). Married Wessel Wessels (1796–1869, m. 1843).

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Kit-kat »
- Portrait »
Posthumous:
- Posthumous »

Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Catherine Law Zabriskie, 1892 (Hills no. 31.3.63)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1185 (accessed on May 18, 2024).