Between Rounds
1898–1899 · Oil on canvas · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
- Year
- 1898–1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 127.3 × 101.3 cm
- Collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Movement
- Realism
A boxer rests on his stool in the corner of the ring at the Philadelphia Arena while his seconds fan him with a towel, and a timekeeper sits at a table in the foreground with his back to us. Eakins went to professional fights in the late 1890s and asked every figure in the picture, including the fighter Billy Smith, to pose in the hall itself. The smoky gallery of spectators and posters rises behind the bright, bare figure in the ring. It is one of three boxing pictures from those years, and has been at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1929.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A dark, smoky boxing scene in brown, olive and white for a home gym, study or den in a black frame. It suits charcoal, deep green or warm grey walls at 16×24 and pairs with Bellows's Stag at Sharkey's.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898–1899)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- study or library, home gym, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
