Catalogue Entry

No. 75: "The full-length figure of a young lad, dressed from head to foot in the characteristic costume of a chimney sweep, his right arm akimbo and his left hanging from his side. He stands in full sunlight leaning against a rough plastered wall, and on the left is a door closed by hasp and padlock, while on the right is a grape vine growing and clinging against the wall. His soot sack and broom lie on the ground near him."
"Height, 36 inches; width, 29 inches."
[Annotation: “205.00 / W. B. Cogswell / (not now)”]

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. 75 (as The Savoyard)]

William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben), February 26, 1907 (by purchase)

Likely Mabel Cogswell Button, his daughter (by descent)

Leonora Chandler Button Hutchins (Mrs. Philip M. Hutchins), her daughter, by 1940 (by descent)

Mary Naomi Cogswell Button Lieberman, her niece (by descent)

Harold Lieberman, St. Cloud, Minnesota, her husband, 2010

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.

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, June 1856, no. 374, [possibly], as The Savoyard.

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].

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. 75, as The Savoyard.

"Eastman Johnson Sale." American Art News 5, no. 20 (March 2, 1907).

Hartmann, Sadakichi. "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter." The International Studio 34 (April 1908), p. 110 [possibly].

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].

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. 11, as The Savoyard.

Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 26, fig. 19, as The Savoyard Boy.