Taking the Count

{{Short description|Painting by Thomas Eakins}}

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| artist = Thomas Eakins

| year = {{start date|1898}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5463|title=Taking the Count | Yale University Art Gallery|access-date=2016-09-21|archive-date=2016-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120213440/http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5463|url-status=live}}

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.Goodrich, Lloyd, Thomas Eakins, Vol. II (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 147. {{ISBN|0-674-88490-6}} 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.Goodrich, Vol. II, op. cit., p. 149.