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

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34.0 Collaborations

Johnson made several paintings in collaboration with his fellow American artists Louis Rémy Mignot (1831–1870), Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), and Jervis McEntee (1828–1891). All three are best known as Hudson River School landscape painters; Johnson painted the figures that people their landscapes and interiors.

Johnson’s earliest collaborations were with Mignot: first in The Hague, where they had met during Johnson’s stay, 1851–1855 (Poort van een Kastel bij Winter [Doorway of a Castle in Winter], c.1851–52), and later in America, when Mignot was developing sketches he had made during his 1857 trip to Ecuador with Frederic Church (Street View in Guayaquil, 1859).

Johnson and McEntee were close confidants. They socialized, traveled together, and exchanged letters across decades; Johnson makes many appearances in McEntee’s diaries. Together, they painted Landscape with Figures, c. 1862 and Children in the Wood (Percival P. and Madeleine Baxter), 1882.

Johnson and Whittredge were longtime friends as well. As young men they lived together in Düsseldorf where both were studying painting, and there worked together in Emanuel Leutze’s studio on Leutze’s monumental painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. Later in America, c. 1864–65, they collaborated on the interior scenes An Old New England Kitchen and Sunday Morning.

Johnson’s relationships with these artists were mutually beneficial, personally and professionally, and the works benefited from the artists’ complementary strengths. —AM

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Hills no. 34.0.1
Poort van een Kastel bij Winter (Doorway of a Castle in Winter) (Johnson and Louis Rémy Mignot)
Alternate titles: Doorway of a Castle in Winter; Winter Scene (Johnson and Louis Rémy Mignot); Winter Scene in Holland—Landscape, Figures
c.1851–52
Oil on panel
21 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (54.6 x 40 cm)
Signed lower left: Eastman Johnson; lower right: Louis R. Mignot [according to RKD—The Netherlands Institute for Art History; in 1975, Parke-Bernet reported only the Mignot signature]
Provenance
George Folsom, 1852 until at least 1857 (by purchase)
[Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 26, 1974, lot 644]
[Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 49]
Private collection
Collection of Lawrence E. Bathgate III, by 1999
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1852 Rotterdam
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Tentoonstelling van Schilder -en Kunstwerken van Levende Meesters (Exhibition of Painting and Artworks of Living Masters), March 3, 1852, no. 224, as Poort van een Kastel bij Winter (Doorway of a Castle in Winter), collaboration with Louis Rémy Mignot (figures by Johnson, landscape by Mignot).
1857 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 1857, no. 498, as Winter Scene in Holland—Landscape, Figures, by Louis R. Mignot & E. Johnson, owner Geo. Folsom.
1996 North Carolina Museum
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad, October 20, 1996–January 19, 1997. (Manthorne and Coffey 1996), no. 8, p. 172. Traveled to: National Academy of Design, New York, February 20–May 11, 1997.
References
NAD 1943
National Academy of Design. National Academy of Design Exhibition Record 1826–1860. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company, 1943, Vol. II, p. 24, no. 498, as Winter Scene in Holland—Landscape, Figures, owner Geo. Folsom.
Magazine Antiques 1996
The Magazine Antiques (New York) (November 1996), p. 699.
Carbone and Hills 1999
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. 22, fig. 14, as Doorway of a Castle in Winter, Collection of Lawrence E. Bathgate II.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): Likely 1975-04 when painting was at auction
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Mignot, Louis Rémy
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Record last updated March 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Poort van een Kastel bij Winter (Doorway of a Castle in Winter) (Johnson and Louis Rémy Mignot), c.1851–52 (Hills no. 34.0.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=494 (accessed on March 28, 2024).