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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author

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After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19). Detail
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Photo: Patricia Hills
After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19). Overall
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Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby’s, Inc. © 2021
[ 20.1 Boys Indoors ]info
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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

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Hills no. 20.1.19
Baur no. 75a
After the Feast
1872
Oil on board
20 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. (52.4 x 29.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson 1872
Frank and Aida Roa, Mahopac, New York
Description/Remarks

Hills, 2021: The sideboard in this painting is similar to the sideboard in Johnson's painting The Toilet, owned by the National Gallery of Art.

Provenance
Enoch Lewis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 1875
Mrs. Arthur Peck, by 1940
John Peck, New York, by October 1970 (by descent)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, by 1970]
Steven Straw Company, Newburyport, Massachusetts, by 1976
Private collection, 1976 until November 16, 2018 (by purchase)
[Sotheby's, November 16, 2018, American Art Sale, lot 46 (as After the Feast)]
Frank and Aida Roa, Mahopac, New York, November 16, 2018 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1875 Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition
Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, Chicago, 1875, no. 214, as After the Feast.
1979 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979–87.
n.d. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, dates 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. 63, no. 75a, as After the Feast.
Douglass 1999
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. 262, as After the Feast.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1970-07; 2018-10-12
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Record last updated July 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "After the Feast, 1872 (Hills no. 20.1.19)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=253 (accessed on May 2, 2025).