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Two Pupils in Greek Dress

Thomas Eakins American
1883
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Thomas Eakins employed photography as a way to imbue his paintings with increased naturalism. He used his students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as models and began to compile a photographic catalogue that would aid his studies of the human form. This image is a study of pose and gesture in which the stance of the models consciously echoes that of the figures in Eakins' sculpted relief Arcadia (1883) seen resting on a worktable.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Two Pupils in Greek Dress
  • Artist: Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Date: 1883
  • Medium: Platinum print
  • Dimensions: 36.8 x 26.7 cm. (14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.87.17
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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