Two Pupils in Greek Dress by Thomas Eakins. American, 1883. Platinum print. The Metropolitan Museum
Two Pupils in Greek Dress by Thomas Eakins. American, 1883. Platinum print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.From the Met:Thomas Eakins employed photography as a way to imbue his paintings with increased naturalism. He used his students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as models and began to compile a photographic catalogue that would aid his studies of the human form. This image is a study of pose and gesture in which the stance of the models consciously echoes that of the figures in Eakins’ sculpted relief Arcadia (1883) seen resting on a worktable. -- source link
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