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Woman Reading (Susan Macdowell Eakins)

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Woman Reading
ArtistSusan Macdowell Eakins Edit this on Wikidata
Year19th century
Mediumoil paint, canvas
Dimensions96.5 cm (38.0 in) × 71.1 cm (28.0 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No.1995.27 Edit this on Wikidata
IdentifiersThe Met object ID: 14981

Woman Reading is a 19th-century (portrait painting) by Susan Macdowell Eakins. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Woman Reading probably depicts the artist's sister Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton. It is one of Eakins' many portraits of her family members in interior settings.[1] It was in the collection of Julius Rauzin, who donated it in 1995. Julius Rauzin knew Susan Macdowell Eakins and her sister Elizabeth, and corresponded with them regularly for many years.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Woman Reading". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. ^ Julius Rauzin correspondence, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts