Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
25.1 Women Indoors

Johnson’s wife, Elizabeth, no doubt turned his attention to representations of women alone—either in interiors or outside. Such women are often lost in thought and suggest sentient beings with an inner life. In my interviews with descendants of Johnson’s siblings, she is presented as an independent woman. Johnson painted her portrait in which she assumes the posture of a woman who thinks on her own (also see theme 31.3). —PH

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Hills no. 25.1.13
The Toilet
Alternate titles: likely Lady Before a Mirror; Lady Before Her Mirror; The Earring; Young Woman in an Interior
1873
Oil on paper board
26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1873
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Toilet, 1873 (Hills no. 25.1.13)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=324 (accessed on March 29, 2024).