The Toilet
1873
Medium
oil on paper board
Dimensions
overall: 66.5 × 56.2 cm (26 3/16 × 22 1/8 in.) framed: 100.33 × 90.81 × 10.16 cm (39 1/2 × 35 3/4 × 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Captain A. S. Hickey, USN (Ret.), in memory of his wife, Caryl Crawford Hickey)
Accession Number
2015.19.85
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...