Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

Catalogue Entry

enlarge

Photo: Courtesy Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers

Overall

Photo: Patricia Hills

Detail

Photo: Patricia Hills

[ 37.2 Euro Drawing Studies for Genre Paintings ]

⊠

37.2 Euro Drawing Studies for Genre Paintings

In Europe, Johnson’s more serious attempts to plan out and develop oil paintings are realized, by beginning with these drawing studies. —PH

View all works in this theme »

Hills no. 37.2.3

Baur no. 404

Study for The Counterfeiters

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute title: Study for "The Counterfeiters"

Alternate title: Sketch for The Counterfeiters

c.1851–55

Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands

Charcoal on brown paper

12 1/4 x 15 5/8 in. (31.1 x 39.7 cm)

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, museum purchase (2005.15)

Markings

Inscribed on verso, in graphite, Knoedler stock number: WCA 918

Provenance

Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)

Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York, by 1940

Albert Duveen, New York, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 8, 1946

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, June 27, 1956 (by purchase of Albert Duveen's 1/2 share)

Paul David Magriel, New York, March 10, 1961 (by purchase)

Florence and Ralph Spencer, by April 1971

Babcock Galleries, New York

[Doyle, New York, December 1, 2004, lot 189]

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, December 1, 2004 (by purchase)

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. 404, b/w illus., Pl. XLI, as Study for "The Counterfeiters".

1946 M. Knoedler & Co.

M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 35, as Sketch for The Counterfeiters. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).

1959 Santa Barbara Museum

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, Drawings of Five Centuries, April 21–May 17, 1959.

1961 Finch College Museum

The Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Paul Magriel Collection of American Drawings, June 9–August 31, 1961.

1973 High Museum

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Düsseldorf Academy and the Americans: An Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors, September 23–October 28, 1973, no. 108. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, January 7–February 11, 1973; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 27–July 28, 1973.

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), pp. 33, 79, no. 404, illus., as Study for "The Counterfeiters".

M. Knoedler & Co. 1946

Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946. Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), n.p., no. 35, as Sketch for The Counterfeiters.

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): 2018-06-26

Related work

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. "Study for The Counterfeiters, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.2.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=824 (accessed on May 6, 2024).