Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Reproduced by permission
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632
Photo: Mauritshuis, The Hague
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04.0 Euro Copies after European Artists
Johnson moved to The Hague in 1851. On November 20, 1851, he wrote to Andrew Warner of the American Art-Union, “I am at present . . . at the Hague, where I find I am deriving much advantage from studying the splendid works of Rembrandt & a few other of the old Dutch masters, who I find are only to be seen in Holland. I shall probably continue here a good portion of the winter" [Adapted from Hills, The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson, pp. 40–41].
He made free copies after Rembrandt, Van Dyke, and the contemporary Belgian painter Louis Gallait. He stayed in the Netherlands until 1855 and developed a profitable career as a portrait painter. —PH
Hills no. 4.0.4
Baur no. 5
Detail (after Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson)
Alternate titles: Copy after "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp," by Rembrandt van Rijn; Detail after "The Anatomy Lesson" by Rembrandt
c.1851–52
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Oil on canvas
15 x 14 in. (38.1 x 35.6 cm)
Private collection
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Markings
Inscribed on verso, top of stretcher, in pencil, not in Johnson's hand: Two heads from the Anatomy Picture. Rembrandt at Hague
Provenance
Private collection, by 1999 (by descent in the family of the artist)
Private collection
Exhibitions
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940 (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 5, as Detail after "The Anatomy Lesson" by Rembrandt.
References
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), pp. 36, 60, no. 5, as Detail after "The Anatomy Lesson" by Rembrandt.
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 20, fig. 8, as Copy after "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp," by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination notes: Carbone 1998-06-11, London: Roderick has another fragment. Right face much more successful/more intuitively ptd. Two upper figs, head + dead head at lower right. Broadly but stiffly described white collars. Rt. face more successfully broad, painting [...] w/rich touches of flesh tones/[pink?] touches also more expressive. Left head stiffer—more smoothly ptd.
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Record last updated August 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Detail (after Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson), c.1851–52 (Hills no. 4.0.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=43 (accessed on June 6, 2023).