Thomas Eakins, 1876 - The Chess Players - fine art print

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This more than 140 years old artpiece was created by Thomas Eakins in the year 1876. The original was made with the size 11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in (29,8 x 42,6 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on wood. The artpiece is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the artist, 1881 (public domain license). Additionally, the work of art has the following creditline: Gift of the artist, 1881. The alignment is in landscape format with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. Thomas Eakins was a male photographer, painter, sculptor, art educator from United States, whose style was primarily Realism. The American artist lived for a total of 72 years and was born in the year 1844 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States and passed away in 1916.

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In this painting, the artist’s father watches a chess game between two friends in a Renaissance Revival parlor of a Philadelphia home. Eakins honored his father with a Latin inscription on the drawer of the chess table, which translates as “Benjamin Eakins’s son painted this in ’76.” A reproduction of a painting by Eakins’s principal French teacher, Jean-Léon Gérôme, hangs over the mantel. Eakins adhered to Gérôme’s academic lessons in his careful spatial construction and meticulous detail. In 1881 The Chess Players became the first work to be accepted by the Metropolitan Museum as a gift from a living artist.

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