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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author

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Marshall Pepoon, c.1877 (Hills no. 45.1.28)
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Marshall Pepoon, c.1877 (Hills no. 45.1.28). Detail
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45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men

When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like those done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. Gradually he moved away from the strong chiaroscuro style he had been using, and his later portraits tend to be sketchier (as was the taste in art at the time) but no less professional. He used pastel to bring in color in some of these portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 45.1.28
Baur no. 341
Marshall Pepoon
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston title: Portrait of Mr. Pepsoon
Alternate titles: Marshall; Mr. Pepoon
c.1877
Charcoal on gray-brown paper heightened with white
24 1/8 x 19 3/4 in. (61.3 x 50.2 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875 (59.118)
Description/Remarks

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875, Vol. 1, p. 204: "Head of an old man with bushy sidewhiskers."

Provenance
Kennedy and Company, by 1923
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939
Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York
Albert Duveen, New York, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 8, 1946 (as Mr. Pepoon)
Maxim Karolik, Newport, Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 12, 1959 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1920 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 35, as Mr. Pepoon.
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. 16, as Mr. Pepoon. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).
References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 8, no. 35, as Mr. Pepoon.
Bolton 1923
Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 40, no. 34, as Mr. Pepoon.
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. 76, no. 341, as Mr. Pepoon.
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. 16, as Mr. Pepoon.
MFA Boston 1962
M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Vol. 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, no. 413, as Portrait of Mr. Pepsoon.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): March 7, 2018
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Pepoon, Marshall
Biography:

Marshall Pepoon (1813–1877). Banker and broker. Member of the Century Association, 1859–1877.

Pepoon, Marshall
Keywords
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. "Marshall Pepoon, c.1877 (Hills no. 45.1.28)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=991 (accessed on May 2, 2025).