A French Homestead

Julian Alden Weir

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

This early canvas by Julian Alden Weir is a visual homage to the Barbizon School, a group of nineteenth-century French painters who worked in a village of the same name near the Forest of Fontainebleau, on the outskirts of Paris. This style of painting, characterized by a sunlit palette of greens and browns, brushy application of paint, and pastoral depiction of nature, was absorbed by the artist while training abroad between 1873 and 1877. Weir would later embrace Impressionism, along with his fellow artist Childe Hassam, whose work is represented nearby.

Caption

Julian Alden Weir American, 1852–1919. A French Homestead, 1878. Oil on canvas, frame: 27 1/2 x 31 x 2 in. (69.9 x 78.7 x 5.1 cm) 20 1/16 x 23 7/8 in. (51 x 60.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Alfred W. Jenkins, 29.1085. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 29.1085_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

A French Homestead

Date

1878

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

frame: 27 1/2 x 31 x 2 in. (69.9 x 78.7 x 5.1 cm) 20 1/16 x 23 7/8 in. (51 x 60.7 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right: "J. Alden Weir"

Credit Line

Gift of Alfred W. Jenkins

Accession Number

29.1085

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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