Singing a Pathetic Song

Provenance

Purchased 1885 from the artist by Edward Hornor Coates, Philadelphia; his son-in-law and dealer, (John E.D.Trask, New York); purchased 20 October 1919 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Singing a Pathetic Song

Eakins, Thomas

1881

Accession Number

2014.79.19

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 114.3 × 81.8 cm (45 × 32 3/16 in.) | framed: 132.7 × 100.3 × 8.3 cm (52 1/4 × 39 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)