Arcadia is a painting c. 1883 by Thomas Eakins, Goodrich # 196. This is part of the Metropolitan Art Museum collection.
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In the early 1880s, Eakins, an instructor in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, began photographing models dressed in classic or nude clothes and posing in vague classic poses. He uses his friends and students as a model, although taking a nude photograph of a student goes against the PAFA policy. Several photographs were used as research for subsequent works, including young naked people swimming and relaxing on the shores of Lake Dove for The Swimming Hole paintings (1884-85).
The Eakins model for Arcadia is his ex-student and future wife, Susan Macdowell, his teaching assistant at PAFA, J. Laurie Wallace, and his nephew, Ben Crowell (son of 6 years) his sister Fanny). He photographed them outdoors in a number of poses, and used the photos as a study for Arcadia and some related works. Arcadian works are very personal for Eakins - he even photographed himself as a piper.
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- 1883 in art
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