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On the brick pavement of a sunny veranda, a young toddler leans heavily on her right arm, to our left, as she reaches for a wooden block in this horizontal painting. Much of her face is cast in deep shadow from the bright light overhead, but light brushes the tops of her cheeks and the tip of her nose. She grips a wooden block with her left hand, closer to us. Her left leg stretches to our right in a stocking striped with vivid red and white. Light glints off the shiny material of her black, round-toed slipper. She has short, golden-brown hair, and her white smock is richly embroidered in a…
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Baby at Play

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844 - 1916)

1876

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81.9 x 122.8 cm (32 1/4 x 48 3/8 in.) ; framed: 106.7 x 147.3 cm (42 x 58 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
John Hay Whitney Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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