Portrait of a Woman
Eastman Johnson
ca. 1871
Medium
Charcoal and white chalk heightening on light brown textured wove paper
Dimensions
18 7/16 x 12 5/16 in. (46.8 x 31.3 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.22.2
Tags
PortraitsProfilesWomen
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...