Catalogue Entry

No. 57: "A little girl has propped on its hind quarters her pet cat in the corner of a couch, and is endeavoring to teach it to sit upright. She wears a short dark blue dress with a white collar and light blue stockings, and sits cross-legged, holding up her right hand with a gesture of authority. The group is strongly lighted from the left, and in the background is suggested a simple interior with a bureau, on the corner of which is a blue jar."
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 22 inches; width, 15 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “47.50”]

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. 57 (as Teaching Caesar)]

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Price, United States, by 1970 and until at least 1977

Present whereabouts unknown

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, American Paintings: A Gathering from Three Centuries, October 5–31, 1975. (Exhibition catalogue: Parry 1975), as Teaching Caesar.

Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, New Jersey, American Art Treasures Discovered, April 17–May 29, 1977. (Gerdts 1977), as Teaching Caesar.

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. 57, as Teaching Caesar.

Parry, Elwood. American Paintings: A Gathering from Three Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Historical Society of Princeton, 1975. Exhibition catalogue (1975 Historical Society of Princeton), as Teaching Caesar.

Gerdts, William H. American Art Treasures Discovered. Morristown, NJ: Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1977. Exhibition catalogue (1977 Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences), n.p., no. 96, illus., as Teaching Caesar.