The Swimming Hole
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The Swimming Hole is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Executed in oil
The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, Rome. This Hellenistic work of the late third century BC is believed to have been a source for the reclining figure on the far left of the painting.
Frédéric Bazille. Scène d'été, 1869, oil on canvas, 62+1⁄4 × 62+1⁄2 in (158 × 159 cm), Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Eakins may have seen this painting while studying in Paris.
Thomas Eakins. Arcadia, 1883, 38+5⁄8 × 45 in (98 × 114 cm), oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like The Swimming Hole, this painting shows the influence of a classical conceit.
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalogue #44. It is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Set o
Detail of Schmitt. Note the riggers.
Schuylkill River Rowing Course (1872)
Max Schmitt (circa 1871)