| Taking the Count | |
| Image Upright: | 1.3 |
| Artist: | Thomas Eakins |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 264.2 |
| Width Metric: | 235 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Yale University Art Gallery |
| City: | New Haven |
Taking the Count is an 1898 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It is part of the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven.[1]
This depiction of a prizefight marks Eakins' return to anatomical studies of the male figure, this time in a more urban setting. Taking the Count was his second largest canvas, but not his most successful composition.[2] The same may be said of his Wrestlers (1899). More successful was Between Rounds (1899), for which boxer Billy Smith posed seated in his corner at Philadelphia's Arena; in fact, all of principal figures in this composition were posed by models re-enacting what had been an actual boxing match.[3]