About the Artwork
Mother and Infant
1888
J. Alden Weir
1852-1919
American
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (16.2 × 25.1 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt
F81.399
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Markings
Signed, in pencil at lower left: J Alden Weir
Inscribed, in pencil at lower right: to my friend E. W. Da[illegible] Inscribed, in pencil on verso at upper left: L 1 Inscribed, in pencil on verso at right: 6 x 9 3/4 7/13 7/19 3/4
Mark, on plate at upper left: J A W
Provenance
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Zimmerman, Agnes. "An Essay Towards a Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Dry-Points, and Lithographs of Julian Alden Weir." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers, 1, 2 (1923): p. 8.
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J. Alden Weir, Mother and Infant, 1888, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt, F81.399.
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