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Photo: Reproduced in American Art Galleries sale catalogue, 1910
Hills no. 3.3.6
Chimney-Sweep
Alternate titles: possibly Een Savoijaard [A Savoyard]); possibly Savoyard; possibly The Savoyard; Chimney Sweep; The Chimney Sweep
1853
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Oil on cradled panel
32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
Signed and dated middle right: E. Johnson, 1853
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Description/Remarks
American Art Galleries sale catalogue, 1910: "A characteristic example of the artist's best work. Against a plastered brick-wall leans a young chimney-sweep in the garb of his calling, a loose gray shirt, knickerbockers and gaiters; his brushes and rope lie on the ground beside him, and dangling at his waist is a metal scraper. He stands in an attitude of repose, leaning against the wall, one hand caught in his belt, his head on one side, the eyes looking out of the picture to the left."
Provenance
Exhibitions
Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Tentoonstelling door de Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen te Rotterdam, 1854, no. 137, [possibly, as Een Savoijaard (A Savoyard)].
National Academy of Design, New York, March 14–May 10, 1856, no. 194, [possibly, as The Savoyard, for sale].
Washington Art Association, Washington, D.C., First Annual Exhibition, 1857. (Exhibition catalogue: Washington Art Association 1857), no. 78, [possibly, as The young Savoyard, owner G. W. Riggs, Esq.]
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as Savoyard].
Baptist Home for the Aged, New York, Exhibition of Paintings in Aid of the Baptist Home for the Aged, the Private Collection of Mr. Theron R. Butler, and a Few Pictures Loaned by Friends, November 22–24, 1909. (AAG 1909), no. 8, as The Chimney Sweep.
References
Washington Art Association. Catalogue of the Works of Art Comprising the First Annual Exhibition. Washington, DC: Printed at Polkinhorn's Steam Job Office, 1857. Exhibition catalogue (1857 Washington Art Association), p. 5, no. 78 [possibly, as The young Savoyard, owner G. W. Riggs, Esq.]
Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 633 [possibly, as Savoyard Boy].
"The Belmont Gallery." Chicago Daily Tribune, November 5, 1872, [possibly].
Mr. Belmont's Collection, Exhibited and Sold. New York: Leavitt Art Rooms, November 12, 1872. Sale catalogue, p. 17, no. 36 [possibly, as The Savoyard, by Eastman Johnston (sic)].
Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine 40 (September 1906), p. 268 [possibly, as Savoyard].
Selby, Mark. "An American Painter: Eastman Johnson." Putnam's Monthly 2 (August 1907), p. 535 [possibly, as The Savoyard].
Hartmann, Sadakichi. "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter." The International Studio 34 (April 1908), p. 110 [possibly].
Exhibition of Paintings in Aid of the Baptist Home for the Aged. New York: American Art Galleries, November 22–24, 1909. Exhibition brochure (1909 Baptist Home for the Aged), p. 6, no. 8, as The Chimney Sweep.
De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of the Very Valuable Modern Paintings, Sculpture and Other Property Collected by the Late Theron R. Butler, Esq. New York: American Art Galleries, January 7, 1910. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 59, as Chimney-Sweep.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 12, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as The Savoyard].
Catalogue of American and French Paintings, Property of the Estate of the Late Emma Rockefeller McAlpin [etc.]. New York: American Art Association, November 1, 1935. Sale catalogue, p. 15, no. 27, as The Chimney Sweep.
The Belmont Gallery Catalogue. n.d. Exhibition catalogue, no. 58 [possibly, as The Chimney Sweep].
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Chimney-Sweep, 1853 (Hills no. 3.3.6)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=22 (accessed on May 11, 2025).