Still Life with Fish
William Merritt Chase
American, 1849–1916

Details
Title
Still Life with Fish
Artist/Maker
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
Date
ca. 1910
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 x 18 1/8 inches
Credit
Gift of Bertram Newhouse
Accession #
34.15
William Merritt Chase achieved a technical virtuosity that earned him the title of master. He initially painted still lifes to support himself but returned to them later in his career with great success. Though his early examples were predictable, in the 1890s Chase began to favor unlikely subjects that recalled Dutch paintings of the 1600s. Chase’s bravura brushwork (characterized by boldness and technical virtuosity) in this still life is most evident in the rendering of translucent fish skin, which he painted with immediate and fluid brushstrokes.
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