The Dancing Lesson
Thomas Eakins American
Not on view
This watercolor shows three male figures of different generations playing and responding to music. A framed copy of the famous photograph of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad suggests the figures' familial relationships and emphasizes their emancipation. This watercolor gained Eakins his first award—a silver medal—at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibition in Boston in 1878.
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![Thomas Eakins and The Metropolitan Museum of Art [adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 52, no. 3 (Winter, 1994–1995)]](/-/media/Images/Art/Metpublication/Cover/1994/Thomas_Eakins_and_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg)
![[Eakins' Students Boxing]](/Rodan/dist/svg/no-image-image-related.svg)
