European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection Drawing the Seine Made in United States, North and Central America1882 Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916 Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper Currently not on view Cat. 989 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 |
LabelEakins projected his photograph of fishermen operating the capstan that hauled in their net and traced in faint pencil the outlines of the men, the patches of light on their slickers, the timbers of the retaining wall, and the foam of breaking waves. After he had brushed in his pigments, the artist atypically did not erase the underdrawing, perhaps because he exhibited this watercolor only twice before presenting it as a gift to the Philadelphia art collector John G. Johnson. |
