Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author

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[ 26.6 Nantucket Portraits and Types ]

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26.6 Nantucket Portraits and Types

Like many artists in the nineteenth century, Johnson often did paintings of “types” that are actually identifiable portraits. For example, the painting John F. Sylvia shows a Nantucket miller in his barn looking up from his account books to look out the window. Called at one time The Falling Market, the subject suggests a man perhaps assessing his position in the economy in the early years of the 1870s when a recession gripped the nation. —PH

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Hills no. 26.6.24

Baur no. 71

Old Man Sleeping in Chair

Alternate titles: possibly Old Man; Old Man Sleeping

1878

Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts

Oil on academy board

10 x 7 1/2 in. (25.4 x 19 cm)

Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/78

Private collection

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Description/Remarks

Hills, 2021: The subject may be Captain Nathan A. Manter.

American Art Galleries sale catalogue, 1936: "Waist length figure in profile to the right of an old man resting his head against his right hand, which clutches the back of a chair; he wears a top hat and dark green coat. Lighted from upper left, before a dark brown background."

Provenance

[Possibly American Art Association, New York, December 6–7, 1900, Modern Oil Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists, no. 141 (as Old Man)]

Mrs. Peter W. Rouss

[American Art Association, New York, October 22, 1936, French Furniture, French and American Paintings, [etc.] Comprising the Entire Contents of the Former Residence of Mrs. Peter W. Rouss, no. 11 (as Old Man Sleeping)]

Mrs. Edward Ward McMahon, Pelham, New York, by 1940

Mrs. H. J. Schwartz, Flushing, Long Island, New York, by 1944

Private collection, by May 2015

References

AAA 1900

Catalogue of Nearly Two Hundred Modern Oil Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists. New York: American Art Association, December 1900. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 141 [possibly, as Old Man].

AAA 1936

French Furniture, French and American Paintings, Etc. Comprising the Entire Contents of the Former Residence of Mrs. Peter W. Rouss. New York: American Art Association, October 1936. Sale catalogue, p. 4, no. 11, as Old Man Sleeping.

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. 63, no. 71, as Old Man Sleeping in Chair.

Crosby 1944

Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, pp. 18, 57, no. C.46, as Old Man Sleeping in Chair.

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Half length »
- Portrait »
- Profile »
- Seated »
Subject matter:
- Nantucket types »
- People sleeping »

Record last updated July 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. "Old Man Sleeping in Chair, 1878 (Hills no. 26.6.24)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=443 (accessed on October 6, 2024).