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Photo: Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection
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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
Hills no. 37.3.5
Baur no. 392
Portrait of a Young Girl
Alternate title: Portrait of a Child
c.1851–55
Locale: The Netherlands
Pencil and white chalk on brown paper
12 x 9 1/2 in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Labels
On mount: Portrait of a Child
Provenance
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until c. 1923
The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenthal Collection of Drawings by American Artists, c. 1923 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1999 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 7, color illus., p. 23, as Portrait of a Young Girl. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.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. 78, no. 392, as Portrait of a Child.Carbone and Hills 1999
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 23, no. 7, illus., as Portrait of a Young Girl.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-03-29
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Record last updated January 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Portrait of a Young Girl, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=811 (accessed on April 28, 2024).