Art, literature & history
Keying Up: The Court Jester
c. 1875
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- image: 152 x 92 mm primary sheet: 235 x 162 mm secondary sheet: 291 x 245 mm
- Collection no.
- 2008.115.1210
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Merritt Chase. Keying Up: The Court Jester. William Merritt Chase; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Merritt_Chase,_Keying_Up_-_The_Court_Jester,_c._1875,_NGA_148037.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Keying Up: The Court Jester — William Merritt Chase. c. 1875.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 152 x 92 mm primary sheet: 235 x 162 mm secondary sheet: 291 x 245 mm.
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.115.1210. Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.