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Wrestlers
is an
oil painting
on canvas completed by
Thomas Eakins
in 1899. It depicts two nearly naked men engaged in a
wrestling
match, with one holding the other in a
half nelson
and crotch hold. Eakins painted the work using a photograph of models as a study; for the background, he used the
Quaker City Barge Club
on Philadelphia's
Boathouse Row
. This painting, as well as an
oil sketch
, are held at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
; an unfinished version is held by the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
.
Painting:
Thomas Eakins
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