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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
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37.4 Euro Drawing Copies after European Artists
Throughout the modern period artists have learned their craft by copying other artists, and Johnson was no exception. Using both drawing implements and paint (see Themes 4.0 and 5.0 for his European painted copies), Johnson chose artworks that indicate his admiration for the Renaissance masters, Rembrandt, and his famous contemporaries. —PH
Hills no. 37.4.3r
Baur no. 452
Putti (after a European artist)
c.1851–55
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Pencil on brown paper
8 1/4 x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the artist
Baroness Muriel van Reigersberg Versluys, Paris, granddaughter of the sitter, by 1940 (by descent)
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 452, as Putti (after a European artist).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. 32, 81, no. 452, as Putti (after a European artist).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. "Putti (after a European artist), c.1851–55 (Hills no. 37.4.3r)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=834 (accessed on May 9, 2025).