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Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Thomas Eakins, wife of the above.
James Graham & Sons, New York.
Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, acquired from the above, April 13, 1962.
Gift to the present owner from the above, December 31, 1985.
Exhibited
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Lawrenceville School, Collector's Choice, October 1987-November 1988.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina Collects: Traditional Fine Arts and Decorative Arts, July 9-September 30, 1994, p.25, no. 16 (as Study of a Baby at Play).
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Lawrenceville School, The Collector's Eye...Two, May 3-17, 1996.
Salem, Virginia, Roanoke College, Olin Gallery, October 17-November 24, 1997.
Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Museum of Art, July-August 1999.
Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Museum of Art, November 2002-February 2003.
Asheville, North Carolina, Asheville Art Museum, March 1, 2009-March 1, 2010.
Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina Central University, January-June, 2013.
Literature
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, p. 169, no. 100 (as Studies of a Baby).
L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1970, p. 169, no. 100 (as Studies of a Baby).
The primary side of the present work is believed to be a study for Eakins' painting Baby at Play (1876, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) that depicts his two-year-old niece, Ella Crowell.