Portrait of William Merritt Chase
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Object Details
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916
- Provenance
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, to 1959
- Exhibition History
- NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, London. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and the Heart of American Life, 8 October 1993-23 January 1994.
- BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM, Hamburg. "High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age," 7 June-31 August 2008, no. 19, p. 118, ill. p. 119.
- PALAZZO STROZZI, Firenze, Italy. "Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists," 2 March-15 July 2012.
- Published References
- WESTHEIDER, ORTRUD, and MICHAEL PHILIPP. High Society. American Portraits of the Gilded Age (Hamburg: Bucerius Kunst Forum Publications, 2008), p. 118.
- WILMERDING, JOHN. Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses (NewYork: Rizzoli Electa, 2020), no. 27 (color), p. 62.
- MCCARTHY, JEREMIAH WILLIAM and DIANA THOMPSON, eds. For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design (New York: American Federation of Arts, 2019), fig. 3 (color), p. 86.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), fig. 5 (color), p. 3.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
- (c. 1899)
- Accession Number
- 66.1486
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.5 x 50.8 cm)
- See more items in
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_66.1486
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2d67093c4-ca75-4aeb-a570-5392da489e96
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