Portrait of William Merritt Chase
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1899)
name: label: Artist
content: Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916
notes: label: Provenance
content: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, to 1959
label: Exhibition History
content: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, London. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and the Heart of American Life, 8 October 1993-23 January 1994.
label: Exhibition History
content: BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM, Hamburg. "High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age," 7 June-31 August 2008, no. 19, p. 118, ill. p. 119.
label: Exhibition History
content: PALAZZO STROZZI, Firenze, Italy. "Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists," 2 March-15 July 2012.
label: Published References
content: WESTHEIDER, ORTRUD, and MICHAEL PHILIPP. High Society. American Portraits of the Gilded Age (Hamburg: Bucerius Kunst Forum Publications, 2008), p. 118.
label: Published References
content: WILMERDING, JOHN. Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses (NewYork: Rizzoli Electa, 2020), no. 27 (color), p. 62.
label: Published References
content: 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.
label: Published References
content: AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), fig. 5 (color), p. 3.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.1486
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: 23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.5 x 50.8 cm)