Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

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

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[ 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. 39.1.34v

Baur no. 453

Rabbits and Folded Hands [verso of Rabbits]

c.1878

Pencil on brown paper

7 3/8 x 15 in. (18.7 x 38.1 cm)

Present whereabouts unknown

Recto: Rabbits, c.1878 (Hills no. 39.1.33r)

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Description/Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 81, note for the recto, Rabbits: "The sketches cover both sides of the paper and there are also two studies of folded hands."

Provenance

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939

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. 81, no. 453.

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- Rabbits »

Record last updated February 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. "Rabbits and Folded Hands [verso of Rabbits], c.1878 (Hills no. 39.1.34v)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1409 (accessed on May 1, 2025).