A Modern Magdalen

William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)

about 1888

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

DimensionsHeight 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.)

Credit LineMuseum 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

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On view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Americas

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)