Catalogue Entry

No. 72: "The head and shoulders, rather larger than life, of a young Dutch peasant boy in Rembrandtesque effect of light. He wears a curious velvet cap with gold tassel and a loose brown jacket. The arms are folded across the breast, the left hand slightly raised. In the background is the suggestion of a landscape."
"Signed at the lower right, E. Johnson, Hague, 1873 [sic]
Height, 28 inches; width, 23 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “47.50 Cogswell”; “1873” marked out and “1853” inserted]

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. 72 (as A Brabant Peasant)]

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)

Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)

Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, her sisters, 1936 (by bequest)

Kende Galleries, New York, January 7, 1943, Paintings: American, English and European Schools from the Collection of the Late Leon Hirsch, Property of Mrs. Frederic J. Merrick, and from other sources, lot 17 (as Dutch Burgher); did not sell

Present whereabouts unknown

Century Association, New York, March 12, 1904, [possibly, as Holland Peasant].

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. 72, as A Brabant Peasant.

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. 2, as A Brabant Peasant.

Paintings: American, English and European Schools from the Collection of the Late Leon Hirsch, Property of Mrs. Frederic J. Merrick, and from Other Sources. New York: Kende Galleries, January 7, 1943. Sale catalogue, p. 15, no. 17, as Dutch Burgher, "Signed at the lower right, E. JOHNSON 1835 [sic] Hague. Panel: 28 1/2 x 24 inches".