The Churner
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 9 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23.9 x 16.8 cm) plate: 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.6 cm) image: 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 in. (17.9 x 11.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1982
Accession Number
1982.1087.4
Tags
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase|Jean-François Millet
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