Wrestlers is a name shared by three closely related 1899 paintings by American artist Thomas Eakins, (Goodrich catalog #317, #318, #319).
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) owns the finished painting (G-317), and the oil sketch (G-318).
The setting for the finished painting is the Quaker City Barge Club (defunct), which once stood on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row.
Three days earlier, he had written to his friend, sportswriter Clarence Cranmer: "I am going to start the wrestling picture on Monday at half past two.
[4] PMA Director Fiske Kimball saw the abandoned version of Wrestlers at the world's fair, and inquired about buying it.
William Preston Harrison bought the oil sketch for Wrestlers in 1927, from a touring exhibition of Eakins works.