TitleStill Life
Artist
William Merritt Chase
(American, 1849 - 1916)
Datec. 1905
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 17 1/8 × 17 in.
Framed: 22 7/16 × 22 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.
SignedSigned at upper right: "Wm. M. Chase".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of Nicholas Markatos, 1978
Object number1978.16
Label TextChase painted more than a hundred still lifes, the majority being fish studies. This work may have been executed as a technical exercise for Chase's students, of whom Nicholas Markatos, the donor, was one.
