Catalogue Entry

No. 110: "This is a crayon portrait made from life with sittings at her own residence in Washington in 1846. Everyone is familiar with Mrs. Madison’s social position at the national capital, where she was a great favorite, and where she was granted the freedom of the floor of the Senate chamber—the only woman to whom this honor was accorded—and also given the franking privilege. Her salons were second in importance only to those of the White House. Her great friend, Mr. Daniel Webster, wished to possess this portrait. Eastman Johnson was unwilling to part with it, but made another for Daniel Webster on the order of Gov. Robert C. Winthrop."
"Signature at lower left, E. Johnson, March, 1846.
Height, 22 ¼ inches; width, 16 inches."
[Annotation: “810.00 / O. Burnet – agent for John Mack (d.) Albany / Reprod. Putnam’s Monthly”]

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

[The artist's estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 26–27, 1907, no. 110 (as The Famous Dolly [sic] Madison)]

John Mack, Albany, New York (Otto Bernet, agent), February 27, 1907 (by purchase)

[American Art Association, New York, March 17, 1922, Uncommon Americana: Books, Manuscripts, Views, Portraits…Selections from the Collections of the late John Mack of Albany, New York [and others], no. 236 (as Crayon Sketch of Dolly Madison)]

E. F. Bonaventure Art Galleries, New York

Grenville L. Winthrop, 1922 (by purchase)

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943 (by bequest)

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American Art at Harvard, April 19–June 18, 1972. (Bolton et al 1972), no. 67.

French, Edgar. "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs." World's Work 13, no. 2 (December 1906), p. 8309, illus., as Dolly [sic] Madison.

"An American Painter: Eastman Johnson." Putnam's Monthly 2, no. 5 (August 1907), pp. 534, 537, illus.

Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association, February 1907. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 110, as The Famous Dolly [sic] Madison.

"Eastman Johnson Sale." American Art News 5, no. 20 (March 2, 1907), p. 3, as Dolly [sic] Madison.

Hartmann, Sadakichi. "Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter." The International Studio 34 (April 1908), p. 108.

"The American Woman." American Magazine (November 1909), p. 210, illus. captioned "From the original drawing made in 1848 [sic] by Eastman Johnson, in whose studio it was photographed for Mr. Hart in 1897, and now reproduced for the first time," [Incorrect: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton was reproduced in Hart].

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 11, addendum "Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as Dolly Madison].

Uncommon Americana: Books, Manuscripts, Views, Portraits including Rare Items Relating to California and the West, Selections from the Collections of the late John Mack of Albany, New York [and Others]…and Including Portraits of Noted Americans. New York: American Art Association, March 17, 1922. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 236, illus. frontispiece, as Crayon Sketch of Dolly [sic] Madison.

Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 40, no. 28.

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), p. 6.

Devere, Howard. "New York Exhibition Reviews." Magazine of Art (Washington, DC) 33, no. 1 (January 1940), p. 40.

Bolton, Kenyon Castle, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton. American Art at Harvard. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Fogg Art Museum), no. 67.

Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 7, illus., as Dolley Madison.

Hills, Patricia. The Genre Paintings of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes. New York: Garland Publishing, 1977, pp. ix, 24, 192, fig. 3, illus., as Dolley Madison.

Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), pp. 12–13, 217, fig. 2, illus., as Dolley Madison.

Turner, Jane. The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914. London: Macmillan, 2000, p. 262.

Ketcham, Ralph. The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 166, illus.

Stebbins,Theodore E., Jr., and Melissa Renn. American Paintings at Harvard. Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 307.