Still Life: Fish
by 1908 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 40 1/8 x 45 1/16 in. (101.9 x 114.5 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit George A. Hearn Fund, 1908
Beginning in 1904, Chase made many large-scale still-life paintings of fish, usually during his summer teaching trips to Europe. Executed with the bravura brushwork and dark palette of his early Munich period, this painting shows the influence of Chases contemporary, the French artist Antoine Vollon, and of the seventeenth-century Spanish still lifes that Vollon also appreciated. The canvas shows a tabletop with a plate containing a striped bass and a salmon; a weakfish lies directly on the table and a bowl appears in the background. Chases goal seems to have been to make what he called
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About this artwork
Still Life: Fish (by 1908) by William Merritt Chase, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About William Merritt Chase
"Painter and teacher. Chase’s early paintings, executed in dark tonalities, reflected his training in Munich; his later paintings, most notably scenes of Shinnecock, Long Island, were painted with a lightened palette, reflecting the influence of French Impressionism.
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