Oil on canvas (lined), signed at lower right, presented in a giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 11 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. Frame dimensions 15 x 18 in.

Julian Alden Weir was the youngest son of artist Robert W. Weir, who instructed at U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Though many of his sixteen siblings painted, J. Alden established a successful career during his lifetime. He studied painting under his father and worked in the studio of his brother, John Ferguson Weir, who headed the Department of Art at Yale University. J. Alden later studied at the National Academy of Design in New York before traveling to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1873.

Weir returned to the United States late in 1877 and began teaching classes at the Cooper Institute and the Art Students League in New York. By the 1890s, Weir adopted an Impressionist style and was soon considered a leading member of the New Impressionist group of painters emerging in America at that time. In 1898, he became a founding member of The Ten, along with Willard Metcalf and Thomas Dewing.

Age cracking, work has been professionally restored with retouching, lining, and varnish, a summary of the treatment is affixed to the verso; frame with age cracking.