Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author
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28.0 Fancy, Picturesque, and Ideal Figures

In the late eighteenth century the “fancy” figure developed as a genre of painting. These figures were meant to be picturesque renderings of children, such as girls selling flowers, boys engaged in chores, or old men whose physiognomy suggests either their faith or their defiance of death. Often such pictures had a moralizing undercurrent. Johnson did a few such figures, sometimes European figures dressed in quaint local costumes but in keeping with his times he moved toward realism. —PH

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Hills no. 28.0.3
Baur no. 109 / 1907 Sale no. 30
Young Girl with Turban
Alternate titles: Girl with Turban; Portrait of a Girl with a Turban
c.1862–69
Oil on academy board
15 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. (40 x 34.6 cm)
Initialed lower right: E J
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Young Girl with Turban, c.1862–69 (Hills no. 28.0.3)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=36 (accessed on October 6, 2024).