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 full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. 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 18×24 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 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
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.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
