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20.2 Boys Outdoors
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
Hills no. 20.2.7
The Truant
Alternate title: possibly The Big Bite
c.1876
Oil on board
10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (26.7 x 17.1 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pencil: 66977/The Truant/E.J. [in Johnson's script]/A 4405
Provenance
Possibly Frederick Loeser, by 1890
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by December 1951–June 15, 1954
Ninah May Holden Cummer, Jacksonville, Florida, June 15, 1954 (by purchase)
Newhouse Galleries, New York
Private collection, 1967 (by purchase)
[Christie's, May 21, 1998, lot 27 (as The Truant)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1890 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, November 1890–April 1891, no. 22, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].1891a Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, May–November 1891, no. 39, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].References
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. 264 [possibly, as The Big Bite].Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1998-04-07
Examination notes: Lots of drawing—all over. E. J. Rich color, richer than color photo.
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Record last updated September 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Truant, c.1876 (Hills no. 20.2.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=260 (accessed on April 28, 2024).