Self-Portrait
1915
Painter, American, 1849 - 1916
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
2014.136.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly the artist's student, Annie Traquair Lang [1885-1918].[1] (William Macbeth, Inc., New York); purchased November 1923 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The inscription on the painting reads: "To my friend Annie T. Lang / Wm. M. Chase. / 1915.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1917
Possibly [Paintings by William Merritt Chase owned by Annie Traquair Lang], M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1917.[1]
1934
Biennial International Exposition of Art, Venice, 1934.
1939
National Academy of Design Special Exhibition, American Fine Arts Society Galleries, New York, May-June 1939.
1948
William M. Chase, 1849-1916, A Selected Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, American British Art Center, New York, 9 November - 4 December 1948, no. 10.
1957
William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916, A Retrospective Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, 30 June - 27 July 1957, repro.
1959
[Chase retrospective], Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, 29 June - 27 July 1959.
1961
Directions in Twentieth Century American Paintings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 7 October - 12 November 1961.
1962
From the Archives of American Art: The Role of the Macbeth Gallery, AFA Gallery, New York; Tampa Art Institute; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Flint Institute of Arts; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Albany Institute of History and Art, 8 October 1962 - 31 May 1963, no. 4.
1976
William Merritt Chase, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 4 May - 5 June 1976.
1983
Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 June - 28 August 1983, unpublished checklist, no. 6.
1985
Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April - 16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1949
Peat, Wilbur D. "Checklist of Known Work by William M. Chase." In Chase Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. John Herron Art Institute, 1949: unpaginated.
2006
Pisano, Ronald G. The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. 2. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 266, no. OP.566.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 292, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: To my friend Annie T. Lang / Wm M. Chase. / 1915.
Wikidata ID
Q46633393