Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family
Eastman Johnson
1864
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Whitney Blodgett, 1983
Accession Number
1983.486
Tags
InteriorsChildrenMenWomenGenre SceneFamily
About the Artist
Eastman Johnson · 1824–1906
Eastman Johnson (1824–1906) was an American painter known as "the American Rembrandt" for his richly toned genre paintings and portraits that constitute one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century American life. Born in Lovell, Maine, he trained in Düsseldorf, The Hague — where he studied the Dutch Old Masters extensively — and Paris before returning to the United States. Johns...