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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
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
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 30: "The head and shoulders of a young girl in three-quarters view to the right, strongly lighted from the upper left. A white kerchief is folded, turban-wise, over her dark wavy hair, and falls over her shoulders. She wears a loose blue jacket with a wide collar. The background is a graded tone of brown."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 15 ½ inches; width, 13 ½ inches"
[Annotation: “35.00”]
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 15 ½ inches; width, 13 ½ inches"
[Annotation: “35.00”]
Provenance
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. 30 (as Young Girl with Turban)]
Sibyl Emma Hubbard (Mrs. Herbert Seymour) Darlington, La Jolla, California, by 1940
Possibly Sibyl Darlington (Mrs. Jean Pierre) Bernard, Annapolis, Maryland
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1937 Frazier Gallery
Frazier Gallery, New York, Eastman Johnson 1824–1906: Forerunner of Homer and Eakins, September–October 1937. (Hirschl 1937); (Frazier Gallery 1937a), no. 24, as Portrait of a Girl with a Turban.References
AAA 1907b
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. 30, as Young Girl with Turban.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. 65, no. 109, as Girl with Turban.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-06-26
Examination notes: Fits description of 1907 Sale Cat. but no wide collar. A nice painting. But thin. Good as a sketch.
Record last updated June 29, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Young Girl with Turban, c.1862–69 (Hills no. 28.0.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=36 (accessed on April 20, 2024).