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A Modern Magdalen
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
about 1888
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height x width: 19 x 15 1/2 in. (48.3 x 39.4 cm)
Framed: 76.2 x 64.8 cm (30 x 25 1/2 in.)
Framed: 76.2 x 64.8 cm (30 x 25 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from a Bequest of Susan Greene Dexter in memory of Charles and Martha Babcock Amory, Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, and the Robert Jordan Fund
Accession Number2007.7
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPaintings
Signed
Wm.M. Chase, I.I.
ProvenanceMarch 6, 1891, sold by the artist, Ortigies and Co. at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, lot 28, sold for $110 to Charles Townsend Van Santvoord (b. 1854 – d. 1895), New York. February 8-9, 1982, anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, lot 238 (as “Nude in an Interior”), lot 238, to Richard Manoogian, Detroit; November, 1985, sold by Manoogian through Joan Michelman, New York. November 29, 2006, anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 132, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 24, 2007)