Cleveland Museum of Art
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
Thomas Eakins
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- graphite and brush and brown wash
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Before beginning a large-scale painting such as The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, Eakins began a series of specialized studies. He outlined the space of the composition with perspective drawings, such as this sketch in graphite. Eakins also used figure studies when rendering a work, as well as landscape and architectural drawings and his own photographs (examples of which are elsewhere in the exhibition). The practice of using perspective drawings to work out the space of a painting dates back to the Renaissance, revealing Eakins’s academic training.
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