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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. 37.3.8
Baur no. 407
Dutch Boy
Alternate title: Dutch Boy in Large Hat
c.1851–55
Charcoal heightened with white on gray brown paper
16 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (41.9 x 36.2 cm)
Inscribed verso, in collector Albert Rosenthal's hand: E.J. Rosenthal Col
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Provenance
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. 407, as Dutch Boy in Large Hat.
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 33, as Dutch Boy, [not hung, according to Frick Art Reference Library copy of annotated exh. cat.] Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).
References
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. 407, as Dutch Boy in Large Hat.
Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946. Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), n.p., no. 33, as Dutch Boy.
Record last updated April 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Dutch Boy, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.3.8)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=826 (accessed on April 26, 2024).