1943.572: Dolley Madison (1768-1849)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.572

People

Eastman Johnson, American (Lovell, ME 1824 - 1906 New York, NY)

Title

Dolley Madison (1768-1849)

Other Titles

Former Title: Mrs. James (Dolly) Madison

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1846

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307879

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on buff wove paper

Dimensions

54 x 37.5 cm (21 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black chalk, l.l.: E. Johnson / Mch 1846
• label: backing, paper, printed: [with design of shield with lion rampant:] GRENVILLE / LINDALL / WINTHROP

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sold at the artist's estate sale, February 26-27, 1907; John Mack, Albany, NY; E. F. Bonaventure Art Galleries, New York, NY; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1922; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.572

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Edgar French, "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs", The World's Work (December 1906), vol. XIII, no. 2, pp. 8308-8312, repr. p. 8309
• "An American Painter: Eastman Johnson", Putnam's Monthly (August 1907), vol. II, no. 5, p. 534; ill. p. 537
• Works of the Late Eastman Johnson, N. A., auct. cat., American Art Galleries (New York, NY, February 26, 1907 - February 27, 1907), no. 110
• Howard Devere, [Review of Eastman Johnson exhibition], Magazine of Art (January 1940), vol. 33, pp. 38-41, p. 40
• John I. H. Baur, Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906 : An American Genre Painter, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY, 1940), p. 6
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 67, ill.
• Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson (New York, NY, 1972), p. 7, ill.
• Patricia Hills, "The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes" (1977), Garland Publishing, Inc., pp. ix, 24, 192, fig. 3
• Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum of Art/Rizzoli International Publications (Brooklyn, NY and New York, NY, 1999), pp. 12-13, fig. 2, p. 217
• Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 262
• Ralph Ketcham, The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville and London, 2009), repr. p. 166
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 307

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

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