Catalogue Entry

No. 19: "This is the study of a little girl seated in a kitchen chair, coddling her pet white rabbit in her lap, holding him tightly with both hands, and at the same time gazing affectionately at the animal. She wears a gray dress with red at the sleeves, a broad white collar, blue stockings and high shoes. The figure is lighted strongly from the upper left, and a deep shadow is cast upon the background, which is the plastered wall of a room."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 13 inches; width, 8 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “85.00”]

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. 19 (as Child Holding Pet Bunny)]

Joseph H. Darlington, Baltimore

[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, January 1969]

Mrs. Anthony W. Roberts, April 7, 1971 (by purchase)

Possibly Spanierman Gallery, New York

Present whereabouts unknown

Century Association, New York, February 1, 1879, [possibly, as The Artist's Daughter].

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, The American Scene: A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century, October 29–November 22, 1969. (Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1969), no. 52, b/w illus., as Ethel Johnson and Her Rabbit.

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. 19, as Ethel Johnson and Her Rabbit.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries. The American Scene: A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1969. Exhibition catalogue (1969 Hirschl & Adler), p. 44, no. 52, illus. in b/w, as Ethel Johnson and Her Rabbit.

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. 262 [possibly, as The Artist's Daughter].