Study for "Greek Girls Bathing", c. 1872

Not on View

Medium

oil on prepared wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (irregular): 16.67 × 26.67 cm (6 9/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)

Accession Number

2015.19.827

Artists / Makers

Elihu Vedder (artist) American, 1836 - 1923

Image Use

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Provenance

the artist, Rome, Italy; Anita Herriman Vedder (daughter of the artist), Rome, Italy, 1923; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1954; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

American Academy of Arts and Letters
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Vedder, Anita Herriman
Vedder, Elihu

Exhibition History

1978: Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1978-1979

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 77, no. 484.