Collections: American Art: Girl in a Japanese Costume

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Girl in a Japanese Costume

Asian textiles and Japanese kimonos were highly popular as decorations and costumes in late nineteenth-century European and American interiors. William Merritt Chase, whose famous New York studio was filled with a vast array of art objects including textiles, ceramics, wood carvings, and metalwork from all over the world, joined in the growing vogue for Japanese costume subjects with a number of paintings of female models robed in beautifully patterned kimonos. The popularity of such images was part of a broader taste for Japanese design known as Japanism, which arose as Japanese objects became more readily accessible to Western collectors.

• Artist: William Merritt Chase, American, 1849-1916
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dates: ca. 1890
• Dimensions: 24 5/8 x 15 11/16 in. (62.5 x 39.8 cm) Frame: 36 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (92.1 x 69.9 x 12.1 cm)
• Signature: Signed upper left: "Wm. M. Chase"
• Collections: American Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Expanding Horizons, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 86.197.2
• Credit Line: Gift of Isabella S. Kurtz in memory of Charles M. Kurtz
• Image: Overall, 86.197.2_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916). Girl in a Japanese Costume, ca. 1890. Oil on canvas, 24 5/8 x 15 11/16 in. (62.5 x 39.8 cm) Frame: 36 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (92.1 x 69.9 x 12.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Isabella S. Kurtz in memory of Charles M. Kurtz, 86.197.2 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.197.2_SL1.jpg)