The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson is perhaps one of the most romantic paintings of the nineteenth century.But who is the figure, and what does she represent?
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The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson is perhaps one of the most romantic paintings of the nineteenth century.But who is the figure, and what does she represent?
Find out by taking a virtual tour with Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Pictured: Eastman Johnson 1824–1906, The Girl I Left Behind Me, 1870–75, oil, 42 x 34 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson.