Idle Hours
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 1/4 x 71 1/8 in. (130.2 x 180.7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1888
Accession Number
88.7
Tags
MusicPortraitsGirlsWomenGuitars
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) was one of the central figures of American Impressionism, a painter whose luminous canvases helped transform the reception of modern French art in the United States and whose personal influence shaped a generation of American artists. Born in West Point, New York, into a family steeped in art — his father Robert Weir was a drawing instructor at West Point — he receive...