Carmencita
Artist: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
Original Dimensions: 69 7/8" x 40 7/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1890) ""Carmencita" was born in 1868 in Almería, on the southeastern coast of Spain. She became famous there and in France for her dancing during the 1880s. After her 1889 New York debut, she received many requests for private performances. The painter John Singer Sargent arranged for her to perform in Chase’s Tenth Street studio in 1890. Soon after, Chase painted this lively portrait, in which he signaled audience enthusiasm by depicting gifts of a gold bracelet and flowers tossed at the dancer’s feet. Sargent painted his own portrait of Carmencita (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) the same year." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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