The Open Air Breakfast
c. 1888 · Oil on canvas · Toledo Museum of Art
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
- Year
- c. 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 95.1 × 144.3 cm
- Collection
- Toledo Museum of Art
- Movement
- American Impressionism
Chase's wife, sister and baby daughter take breakfast in the walled back garden of their Brooklyn house, with a hammock, a white tablecloth and a Japanese screen set up on the grass. Chase painted it around 1888 and it is one of his best-loved family pictures. It is in the Toledo Museum of Art.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A sunny garden breakfast for a kitchen, dining room or garden room in a dark wood frame. It suits white, sage or soft yellow walls.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- American Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1888)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, dining room, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
