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A reproduction of a painting by Eakins’s principal French teacher, Jean-Léon Gérôme, hangs over the mantel. Eakins adhered to Gérôme’s academic lessons in his careful spatial construction and meticulous detail. In 1881 The Chess Players became the first work to be accepted by the Metropolitan Museum as a gift from a living artist.
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Erwin Panofsky. Letter to Maitland Griggs. April 6, 1932, as...
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Feb 22, 2021 · There is a painting that once hung in the Louvre museum in Paris, painted by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. Today, the painting is popularly known as “Checkmate.”. It is now in private hands, having been sold in a Christie’s auction in 1999. The painting depicts two chess players. One is Satan, who appears arrogantly confident.
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Learn about the origin and controversy of the "one more move" story of Paul Morphy, the American chess prodigy who challenged the devil in a painting by Moritz Retzsch. See the original sources, letters and images from the Columbia Chess Chronicle of 1888.
the more apparent when his Chess Players is com-pared with chess paintings by his contemporaries. Eakins eschewed the exoticism of a painting that one scholar has suggested as his source, G6r6me's 1859 Chess Players (fig. 4), and set the scene in a sober, middle-class interior typical of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By excluding
The Chess Players is an 1876 genre painting by Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalogue #96. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is a small oil on wood panel depicting Eakins' father Benjamin observing a chess match. The two players are Bertrand Gardel (at left), an elderly French teacher, and the somewhat younger George ...
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Erwin Panofsky. Letter to Maitland Griggs. April 6, 1932, as by Francesco di Giorgio; states that it is part of a cycle of pictures, probably for a cassone; suggests that the two chess players might be either Tristan and Yseult, Huon of Bordeaux and the daughter of Ivoryn, or Lancelot and Guinevere. Lionello Venturi. Italian Paintings in America.
