Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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20.1 Boys Indoors
Young boys have been a traditional staples of genre painting. To patrons of art during the mid-nineteenth century these youths recalled memories of their own growing years in which innocence was becoming more and more modified by mischievous cunning. —PH
Hills no. 20.1.10
1907 Sale no. 113
The Early Scholar
1868
Oil
17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left: E. J., 1868
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Description / Remarks
MacGibeny, 2021: The 1907 Estate Sale catalogue description, dimensions, and date of this painting are identical to those of A Frosty Morning, sold at auction a month earlier. However, they are different paintings, as evidenced by their differing inscriptions and provenance.
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 113: "Seated in an old-fashioned rocking-chair, his feet upon the hearth of an air-tight stove, is a small lad who, having put aside his mittens, is endeavoring to warm his stiffened fingers. His duty has evidently been to light the fire in the school-room, for behind the stove is the simple wooden desk of the master, and on the right the seats and desks of the pupils. Split birch logs are lying on the floor near the stove, and on the bench behind the boy are his two school books and underneath it his tin dinner pail."
"Signed at the lower left, E. J., 1868.
Height, 17 inches; length, 21 inches."
[Annotation: “170.00 / W. J. Curtis”]
"Signed at the lower left, E. J., 1868.
Height, 17 inches; length, 21 inches."
[Annotation: “170.00 / W. J. Curtis”]
References
New York: National Academy of Design, 1868. Exhibition catalogue (1868 NAD), no. 261 [possibly, as The Early Scholar].
"Fine Arts: Academy of Design." The Albion (New York) 46, no. 20 (May 16, 1868), p. 273 [possibly, as The Early Scholar].
Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association, February 1907. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 113, as The Early Scholar.
"Eastman Johnson Sale." American Art News 5, no. 20 (March 2, 1907), p. 3, as The Early Scholar.
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 261 [possibly, as The Early Scholar].
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Keywords
- Subject matter:
- Stoves »
Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Early Scholar, 1868 (Hills no. 20.1.10)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1768 (accessed on April 26, 2024).