[Self-Portrait]
Thomas Eakins
ca. 1880
![[Self-Portrait] by Thomas Eakins](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/self-portrait-285754.webp)
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Image: 15.7 x 10 cm (6 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.589
Tags
MenSelf-portraits
About the Artist
Thomas Eakins · 1844–1916
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American painter, photographer, and educator who carried 19th-century American Realism to its highest achievement. Based in Philadelphia throughout his life, he created uncompromising portraits and genre scenes that depicted American life with a scientific precision and psychological depth unprecedented in his time. Born into an educated Philadelphia family, Eakin...