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At the Window

William Merritt Chase

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Along with Robert Blum, William Merritt Chase was a founding member of The American Society of Painters in Pastel. In this evocatively backlit image of his young wife at a window, Chase employed the nuanced effects of layered and blended pastel touches to suggest her shadowed features. He used a more vigorous, sketchy hand in describing the lace accents edging her neckline and bodice.

Caption

William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916). At the Window, ca. 1889. Pastel on hand-applied gray ground, on commercially pre-printed canvas attached to a wooden stretcher, 18 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46.7 x 27.6 cm) frame: 27 5/8 × 20 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (70.2 × 51.4 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Wolf, Austin M. Wolf, and Hamilton A. Wolf, 33.28. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

At the Window

Date

ca. 1889

Medium

Pastel on hand-applied gray ground, on commercially pre-printed canvas attached to a wooden stretcher

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

18 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (46.7 x 27.6 cm) frame: 27 5/8 × 20 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (70.2 × 51.4 × 7 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right: "Wm M. Chase"

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Henry Wolf, Austin M. Wolf, and Hamilton A. Wolf

Accession Number

33.28

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Artists and makers

William Merritt Chase

25 works in the collection