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A Rose

1907
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 772
This portrait’s subject, Rebecca Whelen, was the daughter of a trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Anshutz taught for over thirty years. The elegant upper-class woman at leisure was a common theme in late nineteenth-century art, and her association with a fragile flower a popular trope. Anshutz’s sitter evokes that tradition but with a more dynamic presence. Having trained in Philadelphia himself, Anshutz centered a lineage that connected his one-time teacher, Thomas Eakins—who brought a penetrating realism to his portraits—with the next generation of urban realists and other modernists.

Artwork Details

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  • Title: A Rose
  • Artist: Thomas Anshutz (American, Newport, Kentucky 1851–1912 Fort Washington, Pennsylvania)
  • Date: 1907
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 58 x 43 7/8 in. (147.3 x 111.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1993
  • Object Number: 1993.324
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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