Self-Portrait
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 63.5 × 51.44 cm (25 × 20 1/4 in.) framed: 82.55 × 72.39 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)
Accession Number
2014.136.15
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase · 1849–1916
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