Feeding the Turkey
ca. 1872–80
Medium
Pastel on wove paper, mounted to canvas on a wooden stretcher
Dimensions
24 x 14 in. (61 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in memory of William Brown Cogswell, 1946
Accession Number
46.47
Tags
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...