In this portrait, William Merritt Chase presents his daughter, who holds a coral whistle and looks over the shoulder of her mother, dressed in a Japanese-inspired costume. The relationship between the black tones of the kimono and the background attests to Chase’s experiments with delicate tonal harmonies. One critic, praising Chase’s painterly effects, described “ . . . the tingling pleasure that one receives from the one note of vivid scarlet that cuts through this quiet harmony like a knife . . .”.
Gift of Ehrich Newhouse Gallery, New York
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