Mother and Child, No. 2
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 15.5 × 11.1 cm (6 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 15.7 × 11.3 cm (6 3/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
261653
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir · 1852–1919
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...