Keying Up - The Court Jester

 

William Merritt Chase

  1849 - 1916 (biography)

1879  

etching 

6 3/4 x 4 1/2" platemark 

signed in plate, lower left 

not stated 

 

Pisano 3; American Art Review 1881, Vol. II, page 136 

antique-white laid 

published 

American Art Review, Sylvester R. Koehler 

17763 

$450.00 

Chase used the etching as a promotional device to further interest in the painting, the image of which is reverse. It was was published in 1881 in the American Art Review, Sylvester R. Koehler