Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author

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[ 45.6 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents, Unidentified ]

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45.6 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents, Unidentified

The children and adolescents in these portraits have not yet been identified by name. However, the drawings are known or believed to have been done in the United States, after Johnson returned from Europe in late 1855, based on factors including their inscribed dates and the appearance of the sitters and style of the drawings when images are available. —AM

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Hills no. 45.6.2v

Baur no. 389

Figure of a Little Girl

c.1855–56

Locale: Likely Washington, D.C.

Brown crayon on tan paper

29 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (75.6 x 54.6 cm)

Present whereabouts unknown

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Description/Remarks

MacGibeny, 2022: The inscription "Riggs" on the recto suggests this drawing was connected with George Washington Riggs, whose sons Elisha Francis Riggs and George Shedden Riggs were portrayed by Johnson. Perhaps it could have been a portrait (or preliminary study for a portrait) of one of Riggs's six daughters, or another girl in the Riggs family.

Baur 1940, p. 78, note for recto, Figure of a Little Girl: "On reverse is a sketch of same girl in brown crayon."

Provenance

Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)

Present whereabouts unknown

References

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. 78, no. 389.

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Portrait »
- Pose unknown »

Record last updated April 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Figure of a Little Girl, c.1855–56 (Hills no. 45.6.2v)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1408 (accessed on October 12, 2024).