Study for "The Agony in the Garden" 1803 - 1889

This preparatory sketch, “Study for “The Agony in the Garden,” by American artist Robert Walter Weir (1803–1889), is a faint, almost ghostly depiction of a kneeling figure. It is likely a preliminary study for Weir's larger, more finished painting, "The Agony in the Garden," now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sketch's delicate lines and subtle shading are reminiscent of the artist's interest in Renaissance-era painting, particularly in the work of Raphael.