Pablo de Sarasate: Portrait of a Violinist  1875

[b]Notes from the Curator:[/b] [br]Although the form of the signature is like that used by William Chase after about 1885, several stylistic features point to a date late in Chase’s Munich period (1872-78), especially the broadly brushed colored background, the working of the hair into an unruly mass extended beyond reasonable limits, and the overly strong, flat lighting w...