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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Julian Alden Weir (American, West Point, New York 1852–1919 New York)
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 71 1/8 in. (130.2 x 180.7 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Painting
Department: The American Wing
Credit line: Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1888
Accession no.: 88.7

The Grey Bodice
Julian Alden Weir
1898 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001563
Flowers
Julian Alden Weir
1880 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002262
The Building of the Dam
Julian Alden Weir
1908 · Painting
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009249
Connecticut Village (Going to School)
Julian Alden Weir
after 1891 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00013894