[Profile of a Seated African American Man]
ca. 1884
![[Profile of a Seated African American Man] by Thomas Eakins](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/profile-of-a-seated-african-american-man-285842.webp)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 3 13/16 × 2 11/16 in. (9.7 × 6.8 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1109
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Eakins · 1844–1916
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American painter, photographer, and educator who carried 19th-century American Realism to its highest achievement. Based in Philadelphia throughout his life, he created uncompromising portraits and genre scenes that depicted American life with a scientific precision and psychological depth unprecedented in his time. Born into an educated Philadelphia family, Eakin...