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Paris as Proving Ground: Part I |
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Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
The Writing Master, 1882
Oil on canvas; 30 x 34 1/4 in. (76.2 x 87 cm)
Salon, 1890
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1917 (17.173)
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Eakins's father, Benjamin (1818–1899), was a successful writing master who taught penmanship at 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 Mending the Net (1881; Philadelphia Museum of Art). Only The Writing Master was shown—in the 1890 Salon.
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