For the Little One
William Merritt Chase
ca. 1896
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40 x 35 1/4 in. (101.6 x 89.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, by exchange, 1917
Accession Number
13.90
Tags
InteriorsWomenSewing
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