By Candlelight
Gentle features, softly drawn, mark the serious countenance. Dense repetitions of fine lines trace the wide eyes and sensual lips of the artist's wife, Anna (who appears in a drawing exhibited nearby.) She sits opposite her husband at a table, glancing down and slightly away, her hands clasped lightly in a gesture resembling prayer. Behind her high-backed chair, an antique cabinet marked by turnings and carved panels-a sign of the woman's Yankee pedigree, and of her husband's refined taste-emerges from the darkness.
Artwork Details
- Title: By Candlelight
- Artist: Julian Alden Weir (American, West Point, New York 1852–1919 New York)
- Date: ca. 1885–93
- Medium: Drypoint; only state
- Dimensions: plate: 9 3/8 x 6 3/16 in. (23.8 x 15.7 cm)
sheet: 9 15/16 x 6 3/8 in. (25.2 x 16.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918
- Object Number: 18.59.14
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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