Lot 42
  • 42

Eastman Johnson

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Eastman Johnson
  • The James A. Burden Family
  • signed E. Johnson and dated 1875, l.l.

  • pastel on paper laid down on canvas en grisaille
  • Sight: 29 by 24 3/8 in.
  • (73.7 by 62 cm.)

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by the James A. Burden family
By descent in the family to the present owner

Condition

(Work was not examined out of frame for fear of damaging it) in good condition, overall; a few small losses at upper right; one at lower left; water stains along lower edge, right; canvas on which sheet is laid down is stretched
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Catalogue Note

James A. Burden, president of the famed Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York,  was the great-grandfather of Adele Lawrence Auchincloss (Mrs. Louis Auchincloss).