# The Chaperone, in Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins painted this in about 1908, aged 64. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> An elderly woman in a dark blue gown and head covering sits absorbed in the work in her hands, her eyes lowered. She is the chaperone from Thomas Eakins’s late paintings of William Rush, the Philadelphia sculptor shown carving a statue from a nude model while an older woman sits by for propriety, knitting.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1908
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 46.3 x 36.2 cm (18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) framed: 63.5 x 53.3 x 8.3 cm (25 x 21 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991.34.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Eakins](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-eakins), American, 1844–1916

Eakins studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme and was impressed in Spain by Velázquez and Ribera, then returned to Philadelphia, where he spent his life.

9 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Thomas Eakins's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-thomas-eakins?hang=748) (8 works)
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