American Monotypes from the Baker/Pisano Collection | Page 29

William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
Portrait of a Man, n.d.
Monotype, 7 11/16 x 4 7/8 in.
Chazen Museum of Art, gift of D. Frederick Baker from the
Baker/Pisano Collection, 2014.6.2

The art of the monotype had a revival of sorts in the last
quarter of the nineteenth century. Edgar Degas was said to
have produced his first monotype around 1874–1875, about the
same time it was taken up by students at the Munich Academy
when William Merritt Chase was a student there (1872–1877).
This Portrait of a Man by Chase likely dates around the 1880s
after Chase moved to New York.
NOTES:
Pisano, William Merritt Chase, 53, M. 11, illus.

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