William Merritt Chase 1849 - 1916

Mrs. William Merritt Chase (the artist's wife) (probably)
M.A. Newhouse and Son, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1926
Frank Cambria, New York, circa 1927
Sophie Cambria, New York (his daughter)
Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1981 
Private Collection, 1981
Acquired by the present owner, 1987

Wilbur D. Peat, Checklist of Known Work by William Merritt Chase, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1949 (as Shinnecock (C))
Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, vol. III, no. L. 205, p. 103, illustrated

This painting is in very good condition. Under UV: there are a few spots of inpainting along the extreme left and center right edges in the sky. There is one small dash of inpainting in the left center along horizon line, and a few pindots of inpainting in the sky.
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Ronald Pisano writes: "Chase here portrays two of his daughters, Alice Dieudonnée and Dorothy Brémond, engaged in picking leaves or flowers. They are tiny figures whose scale suggests the broad expanse of the landscape surrounding them" (Landscapes in Oil, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), 2009, vol. III, p. 103).