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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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The Savoyard (Girl at an Attic Window), c.1849–51 (Hills no. 3.3.2). Inscription
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Photo: Valerie Elbrick Hanlon
03.3 Euro Peasant Types, Children and Adolescents

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Hills no. 3.3.2
Baur no. 12
The Savoyard (Girl at an Attic Window)
Alternate title: The Savoyard
c.1849–51
Oil on coarse cardboard
12 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. (31.8 x 35.2 cm)
Initialed lower left in red: E. J.; inscribed verso in script: In Dusseldorf/E.J.
Description / Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 60: "This sketch has no relation to [Baur] nos. 11 and 13. It shows a girl at an attic window."

Provenance
Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, nephew of the artist (son of his brother Philip Carrigan Johnson, Jr.), by 1940 (by descent)
Private collection, Washington, D.C., by May 1971 (by descent)
Valerie Elbrick Hanlon, Gilbertsville, New York (by descent)
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. 60, no. 12, as The Savoyard.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-05
Examination notes: Very garish colors.
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Record last updated December 29, 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 Savoyard (Girl at an Attic Window), c.1849–51 (Hills no. 3.3.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=39 (accessed on March 28, 2024).