Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
SOLD BY THE ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study for "The Surrender of General Lee"

细节
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for "The Surrender of General Lee"
bears inscription 'Original Sketch by/Thomas Eakins' (upper right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1875.
来源
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1961.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.
出版
E.C. Perry III, M. Chamberlin-Hellman, "Thomas Eakins as an Illustrator, 1878-1881," American Art Journal, vol. V, no. 1, May 1973, p. 23.
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, p. 319, no. 39, illustrated (as Sketch of General Robert E. Lee).
P.D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 55, no. 21, illustrated (as Sketch for the Surrender of General Robert E. Lee).
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins, vol. I, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, p. 190.
W.I. Homer, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, New York, 1992, pp. 100-01, illustrated.
J. Wilmerding, Thomas Eakins and the Heart of American Life, exhibition catalogue, London, 1993, p. 95.
K.A. Foster, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997, p. 162 (as The Surrender of Lee to Grant).

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The present work is a preparatory study for a historical painting The Surrender of General Lee which was never carried out to completion.