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

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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
[ 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. 37.3.4
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
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
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (founding collection), 1930s–1950 (deaccessioned)
[M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 28, 1960]
Paul David Magriel, New York, March 10, 1961 (by purchase)
James Goodman Gallery, New York, 1966
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. H. John Heinz III, 1966
Private collection, by January 2020
Exhibitions
1939 Brooklyn Museum
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.
1961 Finch College Museum
The Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Paul Magriel Collection of American Drawings, June 9–August 31, 1961.
n.d. New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, dates unknown.
n.d. Parrish Art Museum
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, dates unknown.
n.d. University of Texas
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, dates unknown.
References
Whitney Museum 1937
Catalogue of the Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937, p. 31.
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), 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
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. "Man Seated, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=812 (accessed on May 4, 2024).