The Window Seat

Artist Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852-1919)

CultureAmerican

Date1889

MediumPastel, charcoal, and pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall, Support: 13 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (33.7 × 44.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 26 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (67.3 × 78.1 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art

Object number2023.4.4

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a pastel with pencil underawing that depicts a woman seated in a white dress, looking out the window with one arm raised.
ProvenanceThe artist By descent through the artist’s family to his granddaughter Private collection, Atlanta, acquired directly from the above, 2004 The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, 2022 Exhibition HistorySociety of Painters in Pastel Fourth Exhibition, H. Wunderlich & Company, New York, 1890, no. 22. J. Alden Weir: An American Impressionist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 13, 1983–January 8, 1984, pp. 170–71; p. 302, pl. 21, illus. J. Alden Weir: A Place of His Own, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, June 4–August 18, 1991. Embracing Elegance 1885–1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11–September 4, 2011, pp. 14, 26, 90–91, 106, no. 30, fig. 11, illus. (this exhibition traveled to High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 24–November 27, 2011). "A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024.Published References“Painters in Pastel,” New York Times, May 5, 1890, 4. “Gallery and Studio: The Fourth Exhibition by Painters in Pastel,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 11, 1890, 6. “The Pastel Exhibition,” Art Amateur 23 (June 1890): 4. William G. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), 50, illus. "American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Doreen Bolger, Mary Wayne Fritzsche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Marjorie Shelley, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent and Elizabeth Wylie, 1989. p.9.