Signed upper right: "W.M. Chase". Inscribed on label verso: "Street Dancer / Italy / by William M. Chase". Verso bears Museum of Fine Arts, Boston label 2096.13. In excellent condition.
Provenance: In Chase Studio New York, circa 1881; to Mrs. W.B. Sewall, Boston, by 1906; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on loan from Mrs. W.B. Sewall, Nov. 2, 1906 to October 30, 1913; to Rufus L. Sewall, Harold I. Sewall and William G. Sewall; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on loan, October 30, 1913 to July 5, 1922; to private collections Boston and New York, to Childs Gallery, Boston.
Included in Ronald G. Pisano's Catalogue Raisonne of the Work of William Merritt Chase.