Portrait of John F. Weir
Medium
Drypoint; fourth state of five
Dimensions
Plate: 7 11/16 × 5 7/8 in. (19.5 × 15 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 8 9/16 in. (28 × 21.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.59.22
Tags
PortraitsMen
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...