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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6). Overall
Overall
Photo: Patricia Hills
Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6). Detail
Detail
Photo: Abigael MacGibeny
Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6). Detail
Detail
Photo: Abigael MacGibeny
Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6). Verso
Verso
Photo: Abigael MacGibeny
37.3 Euro Finished Figure, Genre, and Landscape Drawings

Finished compositions are those that Johnson would have tried to sell. They were often done with charcoal (black chalk) with touches of white (usually white chalk). Sometimes they are figures posed by models; sometimes they have genre-like storytelling themes. —PH

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Hills no. 37.3.6
Baur no. 408
Dutch Peasant Girl
Alternate title: Young Girl
c.1851–55
Graphite heightened with white crayon on brown wove paper
12 x 9 9/16 in. (30.5 x 24.3 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Labels
Label: FREDERICK, KEPPEL & CO. / 16 E 59TH
Provenance
Clifton R. Hall, by 1940
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, 1946 (by bequest)
Exhibitions
1920 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 58, as Dutch Peasant Girl.
References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 10, no. 58, as Dutch Peasant Girl.
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. 79, no. 408, as Dutch Peasant Girl.
DeWald and Norton 1947
DeWald, Ernest T., and Paul F. Norton. The Laura P. Hall Memorial Collection of Prints and Drawings: Bequest of Clifton R. Hall. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, 1947, n.p., no. 47, as Young Girl.
Norton 1947
Norton, Paul F. The Laura P. Hall Collection of Prints and Drawings. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1947, n.p., no. 47, as Young Girl.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2019-05-29
Examination notes: Medium stated that it is graphite heightened with white gouache. I would suggest white crayon, since one sees shiny pencil-like strokes. Not signed. Label: FREDERICK, KEPPEL & CO. / 16 E 59TH
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Record last updated March 15, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Dutch Peasant Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1220 (accessed on May 5, 2024).