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

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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
[ 29.0 Late Copies after Other Artists (not portraits) ]info
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29.0 Late Copies after Other Artists (not portraits)

Throughout the modern period artists have learned their craft by copying other artists, and Johnson was no exception. When he returned to the United States in 1855, after going to Europe to learn to paint, he still chose to copy artworks by modern European artists. See Theme 37.4 Euro Drawing Copies after European Artists for his drawing copies after other artists. —PH

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Hills no. 29.0.5
El Jaleo (Spanish Dancer), after Sargent
c.1883–89
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

Hills, 2022: John I. H. Baur likely knew this work because it was photographed at the Brooklyn Museum, where he was head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1936 to 1952, but it is not included in his 1940 catalogue of Johnson's work.

MacGibeny, 2021: The source which inspired this painting, El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), is dated 1882.

Provenance
Unidentified gallery, Amsterdam
Michael Hall Fine Arts, New York, c. 1988
Present whereabouts unknown
Hills Examination / Opinion
Hills opinion letter: January 16, 1990 view »
Keywords
Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "El Jaleo (Spanish Dancer), after Sargent, c.1883–89 (Hills no. 29.0.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=492 (accessed on April 25, 2024).