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Photo: Reproduced in Sadakichi Hartmann, "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter," The International Studio (April 1908)
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21.1 Girls Indoors
Johnson’s daughter, Ethel, was born in May 1870, and it is not surprising that Johnson would use her (but not exclusively) as a model for the many pictures of young girls in interiors—playing with dolls, warming their hands by a stove, reading, sleeping. Such pictures often include the same furniture, such as the prie dieu (church prayer bench or kneeler) seen in Family Cares and The Tea Party. Because they were genre paintings, not portraits, Johnson freely renders the facial features. Thus, it is not surprising that for paintings done circa 1873, the bodily types of the girls look like three-year-olds; whereas those done circa 1878, look more like eight-years-olds. —PH
Hills no. 21.1.25
Bed-Time
Alternate title: Good-Night
c.1874
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Provenance
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1874 Artists' Fund Society
Artists' Fund Society, New York, January 27, 1874, no. 61, as Bed-Time, likely owner Eastman Johnson.References
Appletons' Journal 1874a
"Art." Appletons' Journal (New York) 11, no. 256 (February 14, 1874), p. 220: "Besides all these paintings of landscape, so full of life, there was a gem, by Eastman Johnson, of a little child going to bed, with its arms full of dolls."The Aldine 1874b
"Art: Artists' Fund Exhibition." The Aldine (New York) 7, no. 4 (April 1874), p. 88: "The collection included some fifteen or twenty figure pieces, the most noticeable of which were…a happy thought by Eastman Johnson, "Bed-Time," representing a little girl on her way to bed, her arms filled with dolls, the whole indifferently painted, especially the drapery, and the features of the face…"Hartmann 1908
Hartmann, Sadakichi. "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter." The International Studio 34 (April 1908), p. 111, illus., as Good-Night.Keywords
- Subject matter:
- Dolls »
Record last updated September 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Bed-Time, c.1874 (Hills no. 21.1.25)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=278 (accessed on April 19, 2024).