Venetian Lace Making
William Merritt Chase
1849-1916
Medium
graphite on tan laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.3 × 45.9 cm (11 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert S. Pirie
Accession Number
1979.78.2
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase
Prolific painter of portraits, interiors, still lifes and landscapes, famed for establishing the fresh colour and bravura technique used in much early 20th-century American painting. He was considered the most important American teacher of his time; after teaching at the Art Students League of NY he formed the Chase School of Art in 1896. Comment on works: genre, Portraits