Chase, William Merritt, Mrs. (Alice Gerson) Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 13.90
Date:
Ca. 1895
Notes:
Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 4. Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, Drawings," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, no. I.36.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 92.
Summary:
An interior scene of Mrs. William Merritt Chase seated by a window at Shinnecock Hall, the artist's summer home on Long Island. She looks down, her attention directed to a piece of sewing in her hands. Light from the window to the right falls across her lap, highlighting her white skirt and pink blouse, and the polished wood floor.
Topic:
Architecture interior--Domestic--House Search this
