The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog | |
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Artist | Thomas Eakins |
Year | c. 1884-1889 |
Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 58.4 cm (30.0 in × 23.0 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog is a painting by Thomas Eakins, from c. 1884–1889. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
History and description
Eakins began this portrait shortly after his marriage to his former student, Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938), a talented painter and photographer, in January 1884. The setting is his studio at 1330 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, where the couple and their dog Harry lived from 1884 to 1886.
The painting depicts Eakins wife, in a blue dress, seated in a chair, in her living room, while reading a book. She takes a pause and looks at the viewer. At her side, the dog rests peacefuly in the floor.[2]
See also
References
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- List of works
- Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)
- Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874)
- The Gross Clinic (1875)
- The Chess Players
- William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1876)
- The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1879–1880)
- The Writing Master (1882)
- Arcadia (1883)
- The Swimming Hole (1885)
- The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (c. 1884–1889)
- The Agnew Clinic (1889)
- Miss Amelia Van Buren (1891)
- The Concert Singer (1892)
- Portrait of Maud Cook (1895)
- The Pianist (1896)
- Taking the Count (1898)
- Salutat (1898)
- Between Rounds (1899)
- Wrestlers (1899)
- Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1899, 1900)
- The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900)
- Portrait of Leslie W. Miller (1901)
- Self-portrait (1902)
- Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903)
- William Rush and His Model (1908)
- Susan Macdowell Eakins (wife)
- Thomas Eakins House
- Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic
- Eakins Oval
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