Original Drypoint Etching by Julian Alden Weir entitled “Petite Fille"-1911

Description: A vintage circa 1911 original pencil signed etching of the artist’s daughter by J. Alden Weir titled: Petite Fille The image is of Weir's daughter standing at a stair railing with a column behind her. Signed in pencil at lower right. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1911-11. Printed in Paris and published in 1911 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Plate size: 4 ¾ inches x 4 inches (120 x 100 mm) The image is printed on etching paper measuring 7-1/2” x10-1/2" with an image size of 4-3/4” x 4" The youngest of sixteen children of Robert W. Weir, artist and art instructor at West Point Military Academy, J. Alden Weir became one of the leading early American Impressionists. However, his art education began with training in the traditional basic styles and methods from his father. Throughout his career subject matter included landscape, still lifes, and portraits. Although his landscapes increasingly reflected his adoption of Impressionism, his portraits and still lifes remained more realistic and conservative.Weir also completed murals including ones in the Liberal Arts Building of the 1893 Chicago Exposition. They received much acclaim, but mural painting was not a specialty for him. At 18, he enrolled at the National Academy School in New York. From 1873 to 1877, he studied in Europe, part of the time in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. From Gerome, he learned much about classical figure painting and the modeling of forms. Weir also had much admiration for the Old Masters such as Frans Hals and Hans Holbein.Friendship with Jules Bastien-Lepage, French plein-aire painter, encouraged Weir to work directly from nature, which became a modification of influences of the Beaux Arts training he was receiving at the Ecole. He was part of the founding of the Society of American Artists, which was a rebellion of European-trained American artists against the constraints of those upholding the standards of the National Academy. Weir was a leading figure in the Society and became increasingly influential in promoting leading-edge French paintings including the collection in America of work by his friend Bastien-Lepage and also of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet. We ship in a rigid stay-flat envelope and only to the continental United States

Price: 185 USD

Location: Milford, New Hampshire

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