Carmencita
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69 7/8 x 40 7/8 in. ( 177.5 x 103.8 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sir William Van Horne, 1906
Accession Number
06.969
Tags
WomenDancingFlowersDancers
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase
Prolific painter of portraits, interiors, still lifes and landscapes, famed for establishing the fresh colour and bravura technique used in much early 20th-century American painting. He was considered the most important American teacher of his time; after teaching at the Art Students League of NY he formed the Chase School of Art in 1896. Comment on works: genre, Portraits