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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], c.1852 (Hills no. 37.3.11). Detail
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Photo: Patricia Hills
Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], c.1852 (Hills no. 37.3.11). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], c.1852 (Hills no. 37.3.11). Partial inscription
Partial inscription
Photo: Patricia Hills
Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], c.1852 (Hills no. 37.3.11).
"Ghost," or transferred, image in reverse of Fish woman of Schaveninge, owned by Patricia Hills on verso of Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], owned by The Free Library of Philadelphia
Photo: Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection
[ 37.3 Euro Finished Figure, Genre, and Landscape Drawings ]info
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37.3 Euro Finished Figure, Genre, and Landscape Drawings

Finished compositions are those that Johnson would have tried to sell. They were often done with charcoal (black chalk) with touches of white (usually white chalk). Sometimes they are figures posed by models; sometimes they have genre-like storytelling themes. —PH

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Hills no. 37.3.11
Baur no. 413
Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic]
Alternate titles: possibly Fish Woman of Shavingo [sic]; Fish Woman of Schaveninge; Fisherwoman of Schaveninge
c.1852
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Pencil and crayon on browned paper, touches of white
12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (31.1 x 24.1 cm)
Inscribed lower center: Fish woman of Schaveninge
Patricia Hills, Brooklyn, New York
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2022: A "ghost," or transferred, image in reverse of this drawing appears on the verso of Johnson's Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], owned by The Free Library of Philadelphia. See the linked image of the transferred drawing.

Provenance
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939
Spanierman Gallery, New York, until c. 1971
Patricia Hills, Brooklyn, New York, c. 1971 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1920 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 52, or no. 53, as Fisherwoman of Schaveninge.
1936 Macbeth Gallery
Macbeth Gallery, New York, Exhibition of a Private Collection of Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 14–February 3, 1936, [possibly].
References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 9, no. 52 or no. 53, as Fisherwoman of Schaveninge.
Comstock 1936
Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: Eastman Johnson's Drawings." The Connoisseur 97 (May 1936), p. 278 [possibly, as Fish Woman of Schavingo].
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. 79, no. 413, as Fish Woman of Schaveninge.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1970-11-04 (at Spanierman)
Examination notes: Basket on head
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Record last updated March 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Fish woman of Schaveninge [sic], c.1852 (Hills no. 37.3.11)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=809 (accessed on May 1, 2024).