William Merritt Chase, 1908 - Still Life: Fish - fine art print

This more than 110 year old artwork titled Still Life: Fish was painted by the impressionist artist William Merritt Chase. The original was painted with the size: 40 1/8 x 45 1/16 in (101,9 x 114,5 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. Furthermore, the work of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are delighted to state that the public domain artwork is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, George A. Hearn Fund, 1908. : George A. Hearn Fund, 1908. Besides this, the alignment is landscape with a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. William Merritt Chase was a male painter, whose art style can primarily be classified as Impressionism. The artist was born in the year 1849 in Williamsburg, Wayne county, Indiana, United States and died at the age of 67 in the year 1916 in New York City, New York state, United States.

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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 Chase's 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. Chase's goal seems to have been to make what he called "an uninteresting subject so inviting and entertaining by means of fine technique that people will be charmed at the way you've done it."Writing in "The New Republic" in March 1917, the American connoisseur and collector Leo Stein commented on Chase's still-life paintings of fish: "Of all non-sentimental still life . . . they are with their bulging mass and sweeping line the most expressive. Chase seems to take a saturated satisfaction in the swell and swing of the thick soft-bodied fish. They give far more result at a lesser price of organization than groups of smaller or less expressively shaped objects."

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