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Dimensions: measurements 54 by 36 in. alternate measurements 137.2 by 91.4 cm.
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Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDougal, Orange, New Jersey (commissioned from the artist)
By descent in the family of the sitter
(Sale: Sotheby's, New York, December 4, 1986, Lot 187)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Exhibited: New York, Society of American Artists, Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1900, no. 42
Hickory, North Carolina, Hickory Museum of Art, 19υth Century America Through Artists' Eyes: Selections from the Masco Collection, 1993
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Literature: Ronald G. Pisano, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Portraits in Oil, 2006, New Haven, Volume 2, no. OP.230, p. 124, illustrated
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Notes: The late Ronald G. Pisano had commented that this society portrait "was painted when Chase was at the height of popularity as a portrait painter -- particularly in the New York and Philadelphia area. The fact that he chose to exhibit it at the annual exhibition of the Society of American Artists indicates that he was particularly pleased with it and hoped by showing it he might attract other portrait commissions of this sort."
