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Thomas Eakins: The Chess Players  wikidata:Q1196533 reasonator:Q1196533
Artist
Thomas Eakins  (1844–1916)  wikidata:Q214905 s:en:Author:Thomas Eakins q:en:Thomas Eakins
 
Thomas Eakins
Alternative names
pseudonym: Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite; Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins; Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins; C.D. Cook; Eakins
Description American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer
Date of birth/death 25 July 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Philadelphia
Work period 1869 Edit this at Wikidata–1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q214905
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The chess players
title QS:P1476,en:"The chess players"
label QS:Len,"The chess players"
label QS:Les,"Los jugadores de ajedrez"
label QS:Lde,"Die Schachspieler"
label QS:Lfr,"Les joueurs d'échecs"
label QS:Lnl,"De schaak-spelers"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Scene depicting a chess match. The players are Bertrand Gardel on the left, and George Holmes on the right. The artist's father, Benjamin Eakins, stands and watches the match.
Date 1876
date QS:P571, 1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 29.8 cm (11.7 in); width: 42.6 cm (16.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,29.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,42.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
room 767
Accession number
81.14
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history between 1876 and 1881
date QS:P, 1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319, 1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326, 1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Thomas Eakins
1881: given to the Museum of Modern Art by Thomas Eakins
Credit line gift of the artist, 1881
Inscriptions

Dedication, signature and date on the drawer of the table:

BENJAMINI. EAKINS. FILIUS. PINXIT. 76
[The son of Benjamin Eakins painted this. 76]
References
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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