Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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[ 31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women ]

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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

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Hills no. 31.3.43

Baur no. 235

Christina Marie Cole Nichols

Alternate title: Christina M. Nichols

1887

Oil on canvas

26 1/2 x 21 in. (67.3 x 53.3 cm) (sight)

Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson, 1887

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Mrs. George Nichols, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1940

Present whereabouts unknown

References

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. 70, no. 235, as Christina M. Nichols.

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): Date unknown

Examination notes: Golden colored dress with white ruffle

Sitter Biography

Sitter: Nichols, Christina Marie Cole (Mrs. George Livingston Nichols)

Biography:

Christina Marie Cole Nichols (1832–1885). Wife of George Livingston Nichols (1830–1892); mother of Katrina Trask (both of whom also were portrayed by Johnson) and seven other children.

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Bust length »
- Portrait »
Portrait sitter families:
- Nichols & Trask Families »
Posthumous:
- Posthumous »

Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Christina Marie Cole Nichols, 1887 (Hills no. 31.3.43)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=752 (accessed on May 5, 2024).