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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.130
People
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, American (Philadelphia, PA 1844 - 1916 Philadelphia, PA)
Title
Francis J. Ziegler
Other Titles
Former Title: The Critic
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1890
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230316

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 50.1 cm (24 x 19 3/4 in.)
framed: 77.5 x 67.3 x 7.6 cm (30 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: To my friend/Francis Ziegler/Thomas Eakins

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by Thomas Eakins to Francis J. Ziegler, Philadelphia, c. 1890; bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.130
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1918), reproduced in b/w no. 139, gallery F
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (New York, NY, 1933), p. 183, no. 251
  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 20
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, Grossman Publishers (New York, NY, 1974), pp 104, 188; ill. p. 106, fig. 82; checklist p. 329, no. 137
  • John Wilmerding, American Views: Essays on American Art, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1991), p. 250, fig. 166
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 95-6, cat. no. 64, reproduced in color, p. 96
  • John Wilmerding, Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses, exh. cat., Rizzoli and Shelburne Museum (New York, 2020), pp. 82-83, no. 35, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 12/23/1917 - 01/13/1918
  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
  • American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013

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