DETAILS
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins
- Date
- 1871
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 32 1/4 x 46 1/4 in. (81.9 x 117.5 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Purchase, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund and George D. Pratt Gift, 1934
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THE ARTIST
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins, a pioneering American realist, captured the vibrant intellectual and athletic life of late 19th-century Philadelphia, from rowing scenes to surgical amphitheaters.
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