Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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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. 31.3.44
Josephine Fisher Pattison
Alternate titles: Portrait of a Lady; Portrait of a Young Woman in a Black Dress with a Lace Collar
1858
Locale: Cincinnati, Ohio
Oil on canvas
24 1/4 x 20 in. (61.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1858
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Markings
Verso, carved into lower stretcher bar: Painted by Eastman Johnson 1858; carved into left stretcher bar: Josephine Fisher Pattison[?] Cincinnati Ohio
Labels
Label on verso, upper frame: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; handwritten tag, tied to hanging wire: Driscoll Gallery, New York, New York
Exhibitions
Mead Art Building, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, dates unknown.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1997-06-07
Examination notes: Looks like an EJ; pencil lines along lips; EJ eyebrows.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Pattison, Josephine Fisher (possibly Mary. J. Pattison)
Biography:
Josephine Fisher Pattison (possibly Mary. J. Pattison 1841–1922). Married E. M. Pattison (possibly Edward M. Pattison, 1839–1927) (m. 1860). Both Mary J. Pattison and Edward M. Pattison are buried in Cincinnati.
Keywords
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Record last updated July 31, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=753 (accessed on February 16, 2025).