JONATHAN EASTMAN JOHNSON* (1824-1906)

Details

JONATHAN EASTMAN JOHNSON* (1824-1906)

Girl with Pets (no. 2)

signed E. Johnson and dated 1859, l.l.--oil on canvas
10½ x 12in. (26.6 x 30.6cm.)

Provenance

Newton Gallery
Alexander Gallery, New York

Literature

J.I.H. Baur, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940, p. 64, no. 106

RELATED LITERATURE:

"A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art", Washington, D.C., 1966, Vol. I, p. 113, illus.

Lot Essay

This oil is a smaller version of Girl and Pets (no. 1), 1856, in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

This painting will be included in Patricia Hills' forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Eastman Johnson's works. A letter from Dr. Hills, discussing the painting, will accompany the lot.