Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

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

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Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI

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Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI

[ 39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches ]

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39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches

When he returned to the United States in 1856, Johnson continued to make graphite pencil sketches in notebooks. Those that have survived time generally relate to paintings he did later, such as the many sketches of Nantucket characters or for paintings he was contemplating doing in the future. —PH

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Hills no. 39.1.8v

Girl Leaning Down [verso of Cosette]

c.1862

Graphite on board

9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm)

Initialed right center in bold letters, possibly in Johnson's hand: E. J.

Present whereabouts unknown

Recto: Cosette, c.1862 (Hills no. 27.0.6r)

Labels

Handwritten label, upper left, likely in Johnson's hand: "Cosette"/Eastman Johnson [label appears to have been affixed over handwriting, which continues in script "N.Y." to the right of the label]

Provenance

Likely Edward W. Hooper, by 1866

Mrs. Edward N. Townsend, by 1961

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1961–1972 (by gift; accession number 61.6; credit line; Gift of Mrs. Edward N. Townsend)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1972–1975

[Sotheby's, December 12, 1975, American 18th, 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture, lot 36 (as Woman Wearing a Hood)]

Private collection, Ohio

Sotheby's, October 10, 2007, lot 111 (as Woman Wearing a Hood); did not sell

[DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, November 18, 2018, lot 112002 (as Coselte [sic])]

Present whereabouts unknown

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): 2007-08-30

Hills opinion letter: Woman Wearing a Hood(painting of which this drawing is the verso), September 8, 2007 view »

Record last updated February 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Girl Leaning Down [verso of Cosette], c.1862 (Hills no. 39.1.8v)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1217 (accessed on May 3, 2024).