Live Auction 2419Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Lot 108 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 "Portrait of Mrs. Charles L. Leonard"

Closed3 March 2011

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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for "Portrait of Mrs. Charles L. Leonard"
signed with initials 'T.E.' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on board
13¾ x 10¾ in. (35 x 27.3 cm.)
Painted in 1895.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gift from the above.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1961.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1961.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966.

Specialist note

The present work bears a grid, suggesting that this painting may have been a final study used to transfer the work to canvas. The portrait for which this is a study no longer exists.