"Rope"is an original mixed-media work on paper by Philip Gladstone
A riff on two student académie oils by unknown artists of the same model in the same pose from a different angle, painted side-by-side ca. 1810 in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse-Guérin (one is in the Metropolitan Museum [VIEW], the other was recently auctioned by Sotheby's [VIEW]), with a nod to Thomas Eakins' iconicThe Swimming Hole
Made with watercolor, pen-and-ink and colored pencils with sgraffito (scraping) on clay-coated paper
Signed by the artist with his monogram cipher (PG) and dated "2023", lower right; signed again with the artist's full name and inscribed with the title on the reverse