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

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03.3 Euro Peasant Types, Children and Adolescents

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Hills no. 3.3.3
Jew Boy
c.1851–52
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
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Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: Note that Walton specifically states the date of this painting as 1851, although he does not provide dates for any other paintings in his list of works made by Johnson in The Hague. The Johnson drawing My Jew Boy is inscribed 1852.

Provenance
John F. Coyle, Esq., Washington, D.C., by 1857
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1857 Maryland Institute
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, 1857, no. 112, as Jew Boy, owner J. F. Cogle [sic], Washington, D.C.
References
Walton 1906
Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine 40 (September 1906), p. 268.
Hartmann 1908
Hartmann, Sadakichi. "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter." The International Studio 34 (April 1908), p. 110, as Jew Boy.
Wallach 2022
Wallach, Alan. "Eastman Johnson's Jews." Perspectives on Eastman Johnson, National Academy of Design (New York), February 15, 2022, as Jew Boy.
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Record last updated March 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Jew Boy, c.1851–52 (Hills no. 3.3.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1348 (accessed on April 20, 2024).