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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women
Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH
Hills no. 31.3.19
Baur no. 176
Mrs. Cross
Alternate titles: likely Portrait of a Lady; possibly Portrait; Grandmother; Portrait of Mrs. Cross; Portrait of Mrs. Cross, of Milford, Pa.
c.1866
Oil on cardboard
15 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (38.7 x 33.3 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
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Provenance
Private collection (by purchase)
Exhibitions
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1867, no. 101, [possibly, as Portrait, owner J. W. Pinchot].
National Academy of Design, New York, Forty-Second Annual Exhibition, April 16–July 4, 1867. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1867a), no. 397, [possibly, as Portrait, owner J. W. Pinchot].
The Union League Club of New York, New York, January 26, 1871, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings, April–October 1880, no. 98, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings, October 1880–March 1881, no. 244, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, November 1881–April 1882, no. 60, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, November 1885–April 1886, no. 90, as Portrait of a Lady, owner J. W. Pinchot.
References
Catalogue of the Forty-Second Annual Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1867. Exhibition catalogue (1867a NAD), no. 397 [possibly, as Portrait, owner J. W. Pinchot].
Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture in the West Galleries and the Grand Hall (November, 1881 to April, 1882). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881. Exhibition catalogue, p. 7, no. 60, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.
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. 68, no. 176, as Mrs. Cross.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2008-07-07
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.”
Cross, Mrs.
Keywords
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Record last updated November 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. "Mrs. Cross, c.1866 (Hills no. 31.3.19)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=727 (accessed on April 23, 2024).