Rosalie Lorraine Gill
The New Model
c. 1884
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 35 5/8 in. (60 x 90.5 cm)
Framed: 36 1/8 x 48 x 5 1/2 in. (91.8 x 121.9 x 14 cm)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1974.45
A female model enters a richly decorated space, with her hand to her cheek as if in admiration of its contents. Rosalie Gill was just a teenager when she completed this painting of American artist William Merritt Chase’s famous studio in New York City. Chase
proudly filled his studio with his eclectic and expensive collections: the rooms were a frequent subject of his own work.
Gill was one of thousands of students, many of them women, who studied with Chase (1849–1916) in New York or at his Long Island studio. She became a professional artist, moving to Paris in the late 1880s and exhibiting at the 1889 Éxposition Universelle and at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago before her premature death in 1898.
Y.M.C.A Association, Baltimore, Art Loan Exhibition, 1888, p.4, no,14 (as The New Model by Roslie Gill; lent by Albert Weil)
The Art Gallery and the Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, "350 Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland", October 26 - December 1, 1984, p. 60, no. 48, ill.
Sona Johnston, BMA organized, "The Art of Still Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to The Academy Art Museum, Easton, August 3 - October 6, 2007; and Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, August 25, 2010 - October 10, 2010.
The Art Gallery and the Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, "350 Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland", October 26 - December 1, 1984, p. 60, no. 48, ill.
Sona Johnston, BMA organized, "The Art of Still Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to The Academy Art Museum, Easton, August 3 - October 6, 2007; and Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, August 25, 2010 - October 10, 2010.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 68-70, ill. p. 69.
The Art Gallery and the Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, "350 Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland", October 26 - December 1, 1984, p. 60, no. 48, ill.
Smithgall, Elsa and Erica Hirschler, "William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master," Yale University Press, 2016, pp.35, fig.5, ill.
Inscribed: On old exhibition (?) label on reverse: "Owner: Albert Weil / Artist: Rosalie Gill / Title: The Model"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 01
