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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Weir, Julian Alden,     Portrait female -- Weir, Julian Alden, Mrs. (Anna Dwight Baker)     Portrait female -- Weir, Caroline "Caro" Alden     Architecture interior -- Domestic     Architecture interior -- Detail     Object -- Musical Instrument     Recreation -- Leisure     Painting

Idle Hours, (painting). Artist:  Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919, painter. Title:  Idle Hours, (painting). Dates:  1888. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  51 1/4 x 71 1/8 in. (130.2 x 180.7 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) J. Alden Weir - 1888 signed Description:  The figures of the artist's wife Anna and daughter Caroline seated on a sofa in front of a row of windows in a sunny room just off the dining room of their home. The two figures are dress in white and are seated amid large pillows. The young Caroline holds a guitar across her lap, as her mother looking quietly off into the distance on the left. Subject:  Portrait female -- Weir, Julian Alden, Mrs. (Anna Dwight Baker) -- Knee length Portrait female -- Weir, Caroline "Caro" Alden -- Child Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window Object -- Musical Instrument -- Guitar Recreation -- Leisure -- Home Life Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 88.7 Provenance:  Acquired 1888. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 138. Illustration:  Image on file. Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 139. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120673   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120673 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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