The Little Student
Medium
Drypoint on ivory wove paper mounted on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.3 × 8.3 cm (4 1/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.1 × 17.8 cm (11 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51480
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...