Study for "Greek Girls Bathing"
c. 1872
Artist, American, 1836 - 1923
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Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with white chalk on purple wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
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Dimensions
sheet (irregular): 34.61 × 37.47 cm (13 5/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.847
Artwork history & notes
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
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. 83, no. 516.
Inscriptions
center right in white chalk: Elihu Vedder
Wikidata ID
Q64558507