Wealth Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)

1893

American Paintings and Sculpture

On view, 2nd floor, American Art before 1900


In 1893 Elihu Vedder painted eight lunettes of allegorical female figures as part of a larger decorative scheme for the dining room of the Arabella and Collis Huntington mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York. The paintings originally hung in the corners of the room, surrounding the large mural that Vedder made for the ceiling, Abundance of the Days of the Week (1926.80), on view in the galleries of American Decorative Arts before 1900.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

23 × 42 1/2 in. (58.4 × 108 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Archer M. Huntington, M.A. (Hon.) 1897

Accession Number

1926.82

Geography

Made in Rome, Italy

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

allegories, human figures (visual works)

Subject

architecture bodies (animal or human components) goddesses women

Technical metadata and APIs

IIIF

Open in Mirador

View IIIF manifest

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Visit iiif.io to learn more

Linked Art

API response for this object

Linked Art is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art.