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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. 23.0.17
Baur no. 132
The Pet Canary
Alternate title: Girl with Birdcage
c.1878–81
Oil on panel
9 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (24.4 x 18.4 cm)
Signed lower left: E. Johnson
Provenance
Possibly [W. H.] O'Reilly of Plaza Art Galleries, Inc., Donnellon [?] sale, Brooklyn, New York, c. 1936
Julius Weitzner, New York
Leroy Ireland, by 1940
Victor D. Spark, New York
Thomas Finger
Present whereabouts unknown
References
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. 132, as The Pet Canary.Keywords
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Record last updated May 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Pet Canary, c.1878–81 (Hills no. 23.0.17)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=363 (accessed on April 25, 2024).