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45.4 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Women, Unidentified
The identities of the women in these portraits have not yet been confirmed. However, the drawings are known or believed to have been done in the United States, after Johnson returned from Europe in late 1855, based on factors including their inscriptions and the appearance of the sitters and style of the drawings when images are available. —AM
Hills no. 45.4.1
Baur no. 372
Bust of a Woman
Alternate titles: Head of a Woman; Portrait Bust of a Lady
1856
Pastel on canvas
20 7/8 x 17 1/2 in. (53 x 44.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1856
Provenance
William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben)
Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)
Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, 1936 (by bequest)
Ira Spanierman, New York, by 1970
Present whereabouts unknown
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), p. 77, no. 372, as Head of a Woman.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): November 4, 1970
Keywords
- Portrait pose:
Record last updated March 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Bust of a Woman, 1856 (Hills no. 45.4.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=936 (accessed on May 1, 2024).