Connecticut/New York, 1856-1935)
Dorothy (The Artist's Daughter), circa 1900, signed incised upper left "To Virginia with love/Will", oil on board, 16-1/8 x 14-1/2 in.; Fine modern carved, painted and parcel gilt wood frame by Lowy, New York, good condition, revarnished; 2-1/2 in. split lower left just under white of collar, reinforced with a clear fixative allowing artists brush stroke to continue. U.V. dark areas in face are the ground (board) and are lacking in pigment, not retouch. Notes: Exhibited: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [The Best of Times: Intimate American Paintings from the Turn of the Century], January 1989-January 1992, #5
Literature: Ronald G Pisano; Carolyn K Lane; D Frederick Bake [William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil], OP.300, volume 2, New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2007. p 157. Provenance: Gift of artist to his sister-in-law, Virginia Gerson; By descent in Chase family until 1969; Chapellier Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. David R. Wintermann, gifted to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (#85.161), deaccessioned in 2007; Brock & Co., Concord, Massachusetts; Private Collection

good condition, revarnished; 2-1/2 in. split lower left just under white of collar, reinforced with a clear fixative allowing artists brush stroke to continue. U.V. dark areas in face are the ground (board) and are lacking in pigment, not retouch