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03.1 Euro Peasant Types, Men
Since the sixteenth century European artists have brought ordinary people and children into their studios to model for them. The resulting paintings are often “types” that would appeal to the market. Johnson painted such works, especially in the Hague, where he went to study Rembrandt and the Old Dutch Masters in 1851. —PH
Hills no. 3.1.1
Baur no. 10 / 1907 Sale no. 66
Old Waterloo Soldier
1851, December
Oil on board
24 3/4 x 21 in. (62.9 x 53.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in large red letters: E. Johnson/Hague. Dec/1851
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 66: "The life-size study of the head and shoulders of a weather-beaten old man in three-quarters view to the right. He wears a dull red fisherman's cap, a muffler around his neck and a coarse frieze overcoat. With the exception of small whiskers on his cheeks, his face is shaven, and his gray hair straggles over his temples from under the closely fitting cap."
"Signed at the lower right, E. Johnson, Hague, Dec., 1851
Height, 26 inches; width, 22 inches"
[Annotation: “32.50”]
"Signed at the lower right, E. Johnson, Hague, Dec., 1851
Height, 26 inches; width, 22 inches"
[Annotation: “32.50”]
Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
[The artist's estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 26–27, 1907, no. 66 (as Old Waterloo Soldier)]
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Worsman Meade IV, until 1936
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1936, Gift of Mrs. Richard Meade in memory of her husband Richard Worsam Meade IV. (acc. no. 4:1936)
[Christie's, September 12, 2007, lot 13, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Saint Louis Art Museum (as Old Waterloo Soldier)]
[Christie's, June 16, 2009, lot 175, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Saint Louis Art Museum (as Old Waterloo Soldier)]
Ronald Buck and Elizabeth Jung, New York, June 16, 2009 (by purchase)
References
AAA 1907b
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. 66, as Old Waterloo Soldier.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), no. 10, as Old Waterloo Soldier.MacGibeny 2021
MacGibeny, Abigael. "Eastman Johnson, 'America’s Rembrandt,' Was Nurtured by His Experience in Europe." the low countries (Belgium and The Netherlands), November 16, 2021, illus., as Old Waterloo Soldier.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2007-08-07
Examination notes: Eyes are shadowed. Dark line shapes the nostril. Highlights on eyes. Ruddy face (dark coral pink indicates alizarin crimson). Right profile of face—scraped out or brushed out paint (to create effects of velvet). Thick shadows down from nose [as if a hairlip].
Record last updated November 17, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Old Waterloo Soldier, 1851, December (Hills no. 3.1.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=20 (accessed on April 26, 2024).