Study for "Venus"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1885
name: label: Artist
content: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bust-length nude figure of a girl, facing the spectator. Her arms are upraised, in the act of arranging her hair. Signed and inscribed in pencil, lower right: "E. Vedder study / for Venus (ceiling detail)."
label: Description
content: (refers to Collis P. Huntington ceiling, commissioned Aug. 1892, finished by Sept 1893, now at Yale)
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-38-68
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, white chalk, on tan paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.5 x 25.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)