The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog, (painting)

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

Object Details

painter
Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916
Subject
Eakins, Susan Macdowell
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 613.
Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 222.
Image on file.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 615.
Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 222.
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Summary
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Eakins (1851-1938) seated in a Philadelphia Queen Anne Style chair, her hands resting on an open book in Japanese, their setter dog Harry reclining on the floor next to her. She wears a blue silk empire style dress, red stockings, and black slippers. The interior setting is the artist's studio at 1330 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Eakins's relief of Arcadia hangs on the wall to the right. Several canvases rest on a desk to the left.
1885
Control number
IAP 36120360
Type
Paintings
Medium
Oil on canvas
Owner/Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 23.139
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
Topic
Portrait female--Full length
Recreation--Leisure--Reading
Object--Written Matter--Book
Animal--Portrait--Harry
Animal--Dog--Setter
Architecture interior--Studio
Object--Art Object--Painting
Object--Art Object--Sculpture
Record ID
siris_ari_42139
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