Studio Interior  1882

by William Merritt Chase

One of the most successful painters in late nineteenth-century America, William Merritt Chase was a New York personality whose reputation was enhanced by the opulent studio space pictured here, in which he worked and promoted his art. First inspired by the exotically appointed studios of his European contemporaries during his student years abroad, Chase embarked on his own...
Size: 
28 1/16 x 40 1/8 in. (71.2 x 101.9 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Public Domain, Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum