List of works by Thomas Eakins

On his death, ownership of his unsold works passed to his widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins, who kept them in their Philadelphia home.

In this, she was quite successful; in the period between Thomas Eakins' death and her own, she donated many of the strongest remaining pictures to museums around the world.

When former Eakins student Charles Bregler arrived at the house after it had been stripped he was horrified at what he found, describing it as the "most tragic and pitiful sight I ever saw.

Every room was cluttered with debris as all the contents of the various drawers, closets etc were thrown upon the floor as they removed the furniture.

In 1986, shortly before her death, Mary Bregler agreed to sell the works to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

[3] In the early 1930s, Susan Macdowell Eakins invited art historian Lloyd Goodrich into her home.

In 1997, art historian Kathleen Foster published a definitive catalog of the Bregler collection, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered.

[5] The Goodrich catalog can be subdivided into three parts: Works in the Charles Bregler collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are listed according to their number in Thomas Eakins Rediscovered.