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Dimensions: 24 by 20 in.

(60.9 by 50.8 cm)

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Provenance: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE ROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK

Estate of the artist
Mrs. William Merritt Chase
Purchased from the above by a group of Southampton residents for the present owner, 1917

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Exhibited: New York, M. Knoedler & Co., National Association of Portrait Painters, 1914, no. IV (as Portrait)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, National Association of Portrait Painters, February-March, 1914
Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase: A Retrospective Exhibition, June-July 1957, no. 82, illustrated p. 98
Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum; Huntington, New York, The Heckscher Museum, The Students of William Merritt Chase, September-December 1973, no. 90, illustrated p. 2
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., William Merritt Chase (1849-1916): A Benefit Exhibition for the Parrish Art Museum, May-June 1976, no. 71
New York, Spanierman Gallery, William Merritt Chase: Master of American Impressionism, November 1994-January 1995, no. 61, illustrated in color fig. 1

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Literature: Ronald G. Pisano and Alicia Grant Longwell, Photographs from the William Merritt Chase Archives at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1992, illustrated p. 104

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Notes: According to D. Frederick Baker, "Chase completed many self-portraits over the course of his long and distinguished career, beginning as an art student at the Royal Munich Academy in the 1870s until the last year of his life. From 1907 until 1911, and again in 1913, he conducted summer classes in Florence, having purchased The Villa Silli in the nearby hills of Fiesole in 1907. And it was likely this venture that led to the 1908 commission to paint a self-portrait for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the third American artist (after John Singer Sargent and G. P. A. Healy) to be so honored. He went on to complete six other similar portraits, including the above cited work which was done in 1913. A photograph of this work descended in the Chase family. This painting is included in Wilbur Peat's 1949 list of known work by the artist, captioned Self-Portrait (K), owned by the Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, New York."

This work is included in Ronald G. Pisano's Catalogue of Known and Documented Work in All Media by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Volume II, Portraits in Oil.