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    "label": "The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake",
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    "id": "121189",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake",
    "description": "Before beginning a large-scale painting such as The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, Eakins began a series of specialized studies. He outlined the space of the composition with perspective drawings, such as this sketch in graphite. Eakins also used figure studies when rendering a work, as well as landscape and architectural drawings and his own photographs (examples of which are elsewhere in the exhibition). The practice of using perspective drawings to work out the space of a painting dates back to the Renaissance, revealing Eakins’s academic training.",
    "date": "1873",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1066",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 35.5 x 43.1 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "graphite and brush and brown wash",
    "tombstone": "The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, 1873. Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916). Graphite and brush and brown wash; sheet: 35.5 x 43.1 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1942.1066",
    "collection": "DR - American 19th Century",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 151904,
            "description": "The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, 1873. Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916). Oil on canvas; framed: 117 x 167 x 6.5 cm (46 1/16 x 65 3/4 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 101.3 x 151.4 cm (39 7/8 x 59 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1927.1984",
            "relationship": "study for"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 612",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n114"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 187",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n211"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gengler, Matthew. \"You Ask, We Answer.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58. no. (July/August 2018): 22.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 22",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2018-04/page/n11/mode/2up"
        }
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1066",
    "creditline": "Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:14:37.605000",
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