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Thomas Eakins (1844–1916): Painting | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

... in France, principally at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) and briefly with the portraitist Léon Bonnat (1833–1922), and a winter working in Spain, Eakins returned to Philadelphia in July 1870. From boyhood, he had himself ...

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child, 1869–70;

Oil on canvas 73 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. (186.7 x 105.4 cm)

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 (87.15.97)

Signed (lower left): Ln Bonnat

John Wolfe, New York (by 1876–82; his sale, Leavitt's [Chickering Hall], New York, April 5–6, 1882, no. 95, as "Fallah Woman with Sleeping Child," for $6,000 to Wolfe) his cousin, ...

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Special Exhibitions - Americans in Paris

... Friends' Central School in Philadelphia. The portrait reflects the affection of Eakins's Parisian teachers, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat, for Rembrandt's works. In March 1889 Eakins sent the painting to the Salon along with The Crucifixion and ...

Special Exhibitions - Americans in Paris

... Henry Hayden Fund Enlarge Zoom Eakins developed a highly finished style while studying with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat in Paris. After returning to Philadelphia, he regularly wrote to Gérôme and solicited his advice. In spring 1874 ...

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