Artwork Title: Portrait of a Lady in Black (Annie Traquair Lang)

Portrait of a Lady in Black (Annie Traquair Lang), 1911

William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase was an early pioneer of Impressionist aesthetics in the United States and enjoyed immense popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A celebrated teacher, Chase likely first met his protégée Annie Lang (1885-1918) in 1901 when she enrolled in one of his annual summer schools on Long Island. Painted in the summer of 1911 outside Florence, Italy, while Chase was on one of his many extended sojourns in Europe, this portrait of Lang suggests the close, perhaps intimate, relationship between the two artists. The painting incorporates the rich fabrics, ornate décor, and elegant attire that characterize Chase's interior scenes. (http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42075.html
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