Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study of a Man's Head for Mending the Net

Details

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study of a Man's Head for Mending the Net
oil on panel attached to masonite
6 x 5½ in. (15.2 x 14 cm.)
Painted circa 1881.

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the artist.
Mrs. Thomas Eakins.
Charles Bregler.
Mary Bregler.
Estate of Mary Bregler.
Private collection.

Literature

L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, p. 173, no. 135.
K.A. Foster, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997, pp. 167, 271, 438.
Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings XI, New York, 2003, pp. 62-3, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co. and elsewhere, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins 1844-1944, June 5-December 31, 1944, no. 18 (as Sketch for Landscape, Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand).

Lot Essay

The present work is one of six small figure and landscape sketches in oil and thirty-three photographic images that were used in preparation for Eakins's masterwork, Mending the Net (1881, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

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