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Study for "The Dancing Lesson": The Boy

Artist: Thomas Eakins
Date: probably 1877
Collection: National Gallery of Art

American Realist painter and educator whose scientific precision and unflinching portraiture brought a rigorous anatomical truth to 19th-century American art.

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