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For the Little One
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For the Little One

William Merritt Chase

ca. 1896

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

InteriorsWomenSewing

Dimensions

40 x 35 1/4 in. (101.6 x 89.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, by exchange, 1917

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About William Merritt Chase

1849–1916 • United States

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

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