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23.0 Children and Pets
A traditional theme in genre painting, but also seen in children’s portraits, are children interacting with their pets. Pets, then and now, were given to children to encourage responsibility and even empathy toward other creatures. Pictures in the theme Maine Haylofts (13.7) also include children and pets. —PH
Hills no. 23.0.1
Baur no. 105
The Pets
Alternate titles: Girl and Pets; Girl and Pets (No. 1)
1856
Oil on academy board transferred to hardboard
25 x 28 3/4 in. (63.5 x 73 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson. 1856
Provenance
William Wilson Corcoran, Washington, D.C., by 1857
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1869 (by gift, as Girl with Pets [accession no. 69.44]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, 2014 (by transfer)
Exhibitions
1857 Washington Art Association
Washington Art Association, Washington, D.C., First Annual Exhibition, 1857. (Exhibition catalogue: Washington Art Association 1857), no. 71, as The Pets, owner W. W. Corcoran, Esq.1859 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, April 13–June 25, 1859. (NAD 1859), no. 621, as The Pets, owner W. W. Corcoran.1935 Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1800–1935), March 26–April 29, 1935. (Whitney Museum 1935), no. 61, as Girl and Pets (No. 1).1935 University of Rochester
University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, American Life in a Century of American Art, November 1935, no. 24, as Girl and Pets (No. 1).1936 Carnegie Institute
Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, An Exhibition of American Genre Paintings, February 13–March 26, 1936, no. 57, as Girl and Pets (No. 1).1993 Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Century Club Collection, July 21–September 13, 1993, as Girl and Pets (No. 1).2006 Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, American ABC: Childhood in 19th Century America, February 1–May 7, 2006. (Exhibition catalogue: Perry 2006), as The Pets, shown only in Washington. Traveled to: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 4–September 17, 2006; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, November 1, 2006–January 7, 2007.2013 Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Journeys: Visions of Place, September 21, 2013–September 28, 2014.References
Washington Art Association 1857
Washington Art Association. Catalogue of the Works of Art Comprising the First Annual Exhibition. Washington, DC: Printed at Polkinhorn's Steam Job Office, 1857. Exhibition catalogue (1857 Washington Art Association), p. 5, no. 71, as The Pets, owner W. W. Corcoran, Esq.NAD 1859
Catalogue of the Thirty-Fourth Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1859. Exhibition catalogue (1859 NAD), p. 39, no. 621, as The Pets, owner W. W. Corcoran.Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 13, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson," as Girl and Pets.Whitney Museum 1935
American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1800–1935). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1935. Exhibition catalogue (1935 Whitney Museum), p. 19, no. 61.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. 64, no. 105, as Girl and Pets (No. 1).Corcoran Gallery of Art 1966
A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born before 1850. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, p. 113 illus.Carbone and Hills 1999
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 36, fig. 27.Cash 2011
Sarah Cash, ed. American Paintings to 1945. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2011, pp. 20, 304 illus.Related work
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Record last updated May 27, 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 Pets, 1856 (Hills no. 23.0.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=346 (accessed on April 18, 2024).