Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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31.7 U.S. Portraits, Groups
Some of Johnson’s most memorable paintings were his small scale compositions of family groups. Such works as these, traditionally called “conversation pieces,” trace their pedigree to England and seventeenth-century Holland. They were commissioned group portraits of wealthy patrons as they wanted to be seen, usually surrounded by sumptuous furnishing and a coterie of family and friends. —PH
Hills no. 31.7.10
Mrs. Cross and Child
Alternate titles: Grandmother and Child; Portraits
1866
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (54 x 43.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson./1866
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Exhibitions
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1870, no. 40, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, Exhibition of the Works of Art in the Permanent and Loaned Collections, Winter 1871, no. 74, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, July 6, 1871, no. 91, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1872–73, no. 43, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1874, no. 9, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1875, no. 25, as Portraits, owner J. W. Pinchot.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, November 1885–April 1886, no. 95, as Grandmother and Child, owner James W. Pinchot.
National Academy of Design, New York, Portraits of Women: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital, November 1–December 1, 1894, no. 163, as Grandmother and Child, owner J. W. Pinchot, Esq.
References
Portraits of Women: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital. New York: National Academy of Design, 1894, p. 34, no. 163, as Grandmother and Child.
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 261, 262, 264, 265.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Cross, Mrs.
Biography:
Mrs. Cross (life dates unknown). Possibly mother of Eliza Cross Pinchot (1816–1886), who was mother of collector James Wallace Pinchot and who owned two Johnson portraits whose subject is identified only as “Mrs. Cross.”
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Cross, Mrs.
Keywords
- Portrait pose:
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- Standing »
Record last updated July 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Mrs. Cross and Child, 1866 (Hills no. 31.7.10)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=726 (accessed on April 26, 2024).