The Chaperone
1908 · oil on canvas
overall: 46.3 x 36.2 cm (18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
framed: 63.5 x 53.3 x 8.3 cm (25 x 21 x 3 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Thomas Eakins
1844
PaintingRealism
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17
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100
Works in Collection
102
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6
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Paintings from Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Sculpture by Painters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Painting, Sculpture, Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Romantic Painting in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943–1944
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Thomas Eakins painted portraits and scenes of American life with an unflinching commitment to anatomical accuracy and psychological observation. A Philadelphia-based realist working in the late 19th century, he employed photography as a tool for studying human form and motion, and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where his rigorous methods shaped generations of American painters. His portraits, often of prominent physicians and intellectuals, combine surgical precision with a somber, searching quality that resists sentimentality.
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