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Painting by Thomas Eakins

Taking the Count

Artist	Thomas Eakins
Year	1898 (1898)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	264.2 cm × 235 cm (104.0 in × 93 in)
Location	Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Taking the Count is an 1898 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It is part of the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven.

This depiction of a prizefight marks Eakins' return to anatomical studies of the male figure, this time in a more urban setting. Taking the Count was his second largest canvas, but not his most successful composition. The same may be said of his Wrestlers (1899). More successful was Between Rounds (1899), for which boxer Billy Smith posed seated in his corner at Philadelphia's Arena; in fact, all of principal figures in this composition were posed by models re-enacting what had been an actual boxing match.

References

"Taking the Count | Yale University Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
Goodrich, Lloyd, Thomas Eakins, Vol. II (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 147. ISBN 0-674-88490-6
Goodrich, Vol. II, op. cit., p. 149.

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Paintings	List of works Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871) Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874) The Gross Clinic (1875) The Chess Players William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1876) The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1879–1880) The Writing Master (1882) Arcadia (1883) The Swimming Hole (1885) The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (c. 1884–1889) The Agnew Clinic (1889) Miss Amelia Van Buren (1891) The Concert Singer (1892) Portrait of Maud Cook (1895) The Pianist (1896) Taking the Count (1898) Salutat (1898) Between Rounds (1899) Wrestlers (1899) Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1899, 1900) The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900) Portrait of Leslie W. Miller (1901) Self-portrait (1902) Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903) William Rush and His Model (1908)
Related	Susan Macdowell Eakins (wife) Thomas Eakins House Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic Eakins Oval

Thomas Eakins

Paintings

List of works
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)
Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874)
The Gross Clinic (1875)
The Chess Players
William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1876)
The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1879–1880)
The Writing Master (1882)
Arcadia (1883)
The Swimming Hole (1885)
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (c. 1884–1889)
The Agnew Clinic (1889)
Miss Amelia Van Buren (1891)
The Concert Singer (1892)
Portrait of Maud Cook (1895)
The Pianist (1896)
Taking the Count (1898)
Salutat (1898)
Between Rounds (1899)
Wrestlers (1899)
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1899, 1900)
The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900)
Portrait of Leslie W. Miller (1901)
Self-portrait (1902)
Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903)
William Rush and His Model (1908)

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