JULIAN ALDEN WEIR
(American, 1852-1919)
Portrait of Caro
1887, oil on canvas
signed and dated J. Alden Weir 1887 lower left
49 3/8 x 36 1/8 in., frame: 64 1/2 x 51 1/4 in.
Provenance: The artist; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. George Page Ely (née Caroline Weir), 1919; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Gregory Smith (née Anne Weir Ely); by descent within the family to a private California collection; private collection, New York.

Exhibitions:
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Exposition Universelle, May 5 - November 5, 1889, no. 326, as Portrait of Artist's Child.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Julian Alden Weir, March 17-April 20, 1924, no. 7 (illus)., as Portrait of a Child.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Alden Weir: An American Impressionist, October 13,1983-January 8, 1984, no. 3 (illus)., as Portrait of a Child. [This exhibition also traveled to The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 9-May 6, 1984, and The Denver Art Museum, June 13-August 19, 1984]. (label verso).
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889: American Artists at the World's Fair, September 15, 1989-July 30, 1990, pp. 225-6, 296, no. 326 (illus), as Portrait of Caro. (label verso).
- The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, J. Alden Weir - A Place of His Own, June 4 - August 18, 1991, as Portrait of Caro. (label verso).

Literature:
- Harold Frederic, "American Art in Paris," New York Times, June 16, 1889, p. 11
- Theodore Child, "American Artists at the Paris Exhibition," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 79, September 1889, p. 520
- Hildegard Cummings, "Art and Nature in the Landscapes of Nod, in Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. et al, A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm - An American Painter's Rural Retreat (Wilton, Connecticut: Weir Farm Trust, 2000) p. 82, no. 72 (illus), as Portrait of a Child.