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TitleThe Little Confectioner

Creator nameCouture, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 7/8 x 21 9/16 in. (65.7 x 54.8 cm)

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/102929?

Accession numberE1924-3-67

SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryPainting--TechniquePainting, French--Italian influences

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Chapter 1: Eakins, Modern Life, and the Portrait

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Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life

THOMAS EAKINS was a painter of portraits. Financially independent, he followed a drumbeat from 1870 to 1910 that guided virtually no other contemporary major artist, either of America or of Europe...

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Elizabeth Johns

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-18

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00346.1

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Civilization, Modern--19th centuryPortrait paintingPainting--Technique

Traditional Picture Construction

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Manet and the Modern Tradition

~There are as many different ways of building up the painted surface of a canvas in oil colors as there are artists. To simplify our discussion, however, two theoretical extremes will be described in terms of...

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PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.143-154

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00079.017

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Chapter subject tags:Couture, Thomas, 1815-1879Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Painting--Technique--France--HistoryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863Oil sketches, French--19th century

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