Taking the Count

The painting

Taking the Count is a 1898 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It is part of the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.[1]

This depiction of a prizefight marks Eakins' return to anatomical studies of the male figure, this time in a more urban setting. Taking the Count was his second largest canvas, but not his most successful composition.[2] The same may be said of his Wrestlers (1899). More successful was Between Rounds (1899), for which boxer Billy Smith posed seated in his corner at Philadelphia's Arena; in fact, all of principal figures in this composition were posed by models re-enacting what had been an actual boxing match.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5463
  2. ↑ Goodrich, Lloyd, Thomas Eakins, Vol. II (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 147. ISBN 0-674-88490-6
  3. ↑ Goodrich, Vol. II, op. cit., p. 149.
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