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Lady in Black

William Merritt Chase

1888

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Portraits Women

Dimensions

74 1/4 x 36 5/16 in. (188.6 x 92.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of William Merritt Chase, 1891

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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