Standing Male Nude Pulling a Rope

Artists

Description

The support was originally one sheet which was cut into two, one showing the head and another the body; these sheets have been rejoined.

Dimensions

42.2 x 48.4 cm (16 5/8 x 19 1/16 in.) other; upper image, irregular (upper image, irregular): 13.6 x 15.4 cm (5 3/8 x 6 1/16 in.) sheet; lower (lower sheet, irregular): 29.2 x 48.3 cm (11 1/2 x 19 in.)

Provenance

Jasper Deeter, Rose Valley PA, Gift to Thomas Suma, 1930. Deeter supposedly got the works from Eakins. Thomas Suma, Rose Valley PA, Gift of Jasper Deeter, 1930, Sold to M. R. Schweitzer, 1945. Suma received the works from Deeter in lieu of salary. His last name might have been "Summa." M. R. Schweitzer, Purchased from Thomas Suma, 1945, Sold to Adams Davidson Gallery, 1975. Adams Davidson Gallery, Washington DC, Purchased from M. R. Schweitzer, 1975, Sold to Seiden and De Cuevas, 1975. Purchased with the assistance of Dr. David Morowitz. Vermeer Associates Limited, Purchased from Adams Davidson Gallery, 1975, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.