Idle hours

Weir, Julian Alden (1852-1919)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1888
Height:
130.2 cm  (51 1/4 in.)
Width:
180.7 cm  (71 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
West Point

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 88.7]Signed and dated (lower right): J. Alden Weir - 1888

Description

A woman and a little girl are seated on a long divan which is strewn with cushions. At their back, a white-curtained window. The little girl holds a guitar and seems to pluck the strings with her right hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Burke, Doreen Bolger; ed. by Kathleen Luhrs. American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vol. III, A catalogue of works by artists born between 1846 and 1864 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980) 137–139. ISBN 0870992449. OCLC 768436249.

RIdIM record id

3192