Portrait of an Old Woman
Eastman Johnson
early 1840s
Medium
black crayon and graphite heightened with white on green wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 23.4 × 19.1 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert S. Pirie
Accession Number
1980.69.2
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...