LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (height) by 13.78 in. (35.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Chase' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Chicago, Illinois, Interstate Industrial Exposition, 17 th Annual Exhibition , September 4-October 19, 1889, no. 93 (as Study of Children Playing Croquet ). New York, Architectural League of New York, 5 th Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York , December 24, 1889-January 11, 1890, no. 324. New York, John Levy Galleries, Twenty-five Americans in Retrospect , March 31-April 19, 1947, no. 25A (as Children Playing Croquet ). New York, American British Art Center, William M. Chase , November 9-December 4, 1948, no. 2. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William Merritt Chase Retrospective Exhibition , October 2, 1983-June 3, 1984, pp. 11, 151, illustrated (as Sketch--Children Playing Parlor Croquet ). Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, A Celebration of Collectors: An Exhibition from Chattanooga Collections , October 27-November 15, 1992

Provenance:

The artist. William T. Smedley, circa 1890. John Levy Galleries, New York. Thomson Galleries, Detroit, Michigan, by 1949. Vincent and Brooke Astor, New York. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York. Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1971