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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.
Provenance
James Wallace Pinchot by 1871 [possibly by 1867] until at least 1881
Mary Jane Eno (Mrs. James W.) Pinchot, Washington, D.C., by 1910
Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1910 (Gift of Mrs. James W. Pinchot, of Washington) (as Portrait of Mrs. Cross, of Milford, Pa.)
Unidentified buyer, September 29, 2009 (by purchase)
[Christie's]
Private collection (by purchase)
[Sotheby's New York, Arcade, June 24, 1988, lot 49 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cross)]
Christie's, September 25, 2008, lot 9 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cross); did not sell
[Christie's, September 29, 2009, Sale 2199, American Paintings, lot 51 (as Portrait of Mrs. Cross)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1867 Yale School of Fine Arts
Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1867, no. 101, [possibly, as Portrait, owner J. W. Pinchot].1867a NAD
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].1871 Union League Club of New York
The Union League Club of New York, New York, January 26, 1871, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.1880a Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings, April–October 1880, no. 98, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.1880b Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings, October 1880–March 1881, no. 244, as Grandmother, owner J. W. Pinchot.1881b Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.1885 Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
NAD 1867a
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].Metropolitan Museum of Art 1881
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 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. 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
- Portrait pose:
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 May 3, 2024).