Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photograph by Patricia Hills, ca. 1970. Brooklyn Museum Archives.
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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. 37.3.4
Baur no. 362
Man Seated
Alternate title: Seated Man
c.1851–55
Locale: The Netherlands
Charcoal and white chalk on brown paper
11 x 9 in. (27.9 x 22.9 cm)
No inscription visible
Private collection
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Labels
Labels: Parrish Art Museum; University Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Butler Institute; Knoedler; Finch College; Brooklyn Mus. 1940; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art; Kulicke Frames
Provenance
Private collection, by January 2020
Exhibitions
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 362, as Man Seated.
The Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Paul Magriel Collection of American Drawings, June 9–August 31, 1961.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, dates unknown.
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, dates unknown.
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, dates unknown.
References
Catalogue of the Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937, p. 31.
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), pp. 33, 77, no. 362, as Man Seated.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-06-15
Examination notes: Like Hills's drawing Fish woman of Schaveninge. Eyes seem closed.
Keywords
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Record last updated July 8, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Man Seated, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.4)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=812 (accessed on July 12, 2025).