The Yield of the Waters, 1878

  • William Merritt Chase, American, 1849-1916

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 49 × 65 inches (124.5 × 165.1 cm)
  • 57 1/4 × 74 1/8 × 2 7/8 inches (145.4 × 188.3 × 7.3 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

16.5

Signed, upper left: Wm. M. Chase

The artist. by 1880, purchased by Samuel A. Coale, Jr. [1836-1893] (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

March 2-3, 1881, sold by (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, USA), the Coale Collection. The artist, probably purchased at the above sale. March 6, 1891, sold at auction by (Ortgies & Co.,, at the Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, New York, USA), sale of works by William Merrit Chase

(M.Knoedler & Co.), purchased at the above sale. P.A.B. Widener [1834-1915] (Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA), probably acquired from M. Knoedler & Co. January 27-28, 1916, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA), sale of works from the collection of P. A. B. Widener. 1916 purchased at the above, sale by M. Knoedler and Co. (New York, New York, USA), acting as agent for the Detroit Museum of Art (predecessor to the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1916-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).

Exh. cat., Society of American Artists. Philadelphia, 1879, no. 182. [as “Fish Market”] Exh. cat., Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago. Chicago, 1889, no. 116. [as “Venetian Fish”] Painting by William M. Chase. Exh. cat., Ortgies & Co. New York, March 16, 1891, no. 67. [as “Venetian Fish”] American Art Annual 13 (1916): p. 338. Valuable Paintings by Artists of Distinction. Exh. cat., American Art Association Sale. New York, 1916, no. 164. Roof, Katherine Metcalf. The Life and Art of William Merritt Chase. New York, 1917, pp. 47, 242. Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Academy, The Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1917, no. 28. [as Yield of the Waters] A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916. Exh. cat., Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. Seattle, 1983, p. 34 (ill.). Bryant, Keith L., Jr. William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian. Columbia, MO, 1991, pp. 45, 269, 273. Gallati, Barbara Dayer. William Merritt Chase. New York, 1995, p. 121 (ill.). Mitchell, Mark D. The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2015, pp. 192-193 (pl. 71).

William Merritt Chase, The Yield of the Waters, 1878, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 16.5.