Focus on Salutat and analyze the Exhibition and provenance.
Eakins sent the painting to the Annual of the Pennsylvania Academy in January 1899, and although it "failed to please the few critics who noticed it", he exhibited the picture a total of four times in the next five years.The painting remained unsold during Eakins's lifetime, and was bought from his widow by Thomas Cochran in 1929; he subsequently donated the picture to the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Andover Andover, Massachusetts Phillips Academy Addison Gallery of American Art Thomas Cochran Pennsylvania Academy