Erisava Staff 6d ago

The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton by Thomas Eakins, 1900

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton

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Erisava: This is a man staring at the floor in a suit. What makes that worth a whole canvas?

What's your take?

Apparently the man in the suit is Eakins's own brother-in-law, painted late in his career as one of a handful of life-size standing portraits he made around then.

#portrait #american #realism #suit

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