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Elihu Vedder

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Wide landscape of hills and mountains under stormy clouds, with a small figure in red on a path at right.

Storm in Umbria

1875

Lunette painting of a classical female figure holding a palm frond and laurel wreath within a green wreath on gold ground.

Victory

1893

Painting of eroded hills and ravines under a pale sky, with blue mountains in the distance and a small figure in the foregrou

Volterra

1860

Small oil sketch of two hooded monks walking a dirt road past dark trees under a cloudy sky, with hills beyond.

Monks on the Appian Way

1860

Painting of several women with fearful faces wrapped in red and dark veils, lit by a fiery glow in the lower left.

A Glimpse into Hell, or Fear

1888-98

Gilded decorative ceiling panel with a central lyre-playing figure, reclining nudes, winged putti and zodiac roundels.

Abundance of The Days of the Week

1893

Half-round painting of a nude winged goddess beside a wheel and bench, with a youth holding a Latin placard and a kneeling bo

Goddess of Fortune Stay with Us

1893

Small painting of draped women walking toward the sea on a sandy shore, with figures seated at left under a warm sky.

The Music Party

c. 1875

Still life with a gilded folding screen of cranes, a dark vase, a pink conch shell, and draped silk on a rug.

Japanese Still Life

1879

Painting of two white animals beside an old stone well with a wooden wheel, under a cloudy sky with distant hills.

Landscape with Sheep and Old Well

1857

Grayscale painting of a turbaned man in a cave mouth looking aside, with sunlit mountains behind him.

Lazarus Rising from the Tomb

1899

Oil sketch of a seated figure on a sandy beach beside a boat, with gnarled trees and a rocky hill under a cloudy sky.

Fisherman and the Genie (Sketch)

1863

Painting of a grey sea serpent coiled on sandy dunes above a turquoise ocean under a pale blue sky.

The Lair of the Sea Serpent

1864

Painted portrait of a woman in a coin headdress and coral necklace, veiled in white, within a carved gilded frame.

Delilah

1886

Young satyr playing pan pipes beside a tree while brown hares gather around him in a snowy winter woodland.

Young Marsyas (Marsyas Enchanting the Hares)

1878

Painting of a fisherman carrying a net with a mermaid clinging to it on a sandy shore beside turquoise waves.

Fisherman and Mermaid

1888

Painting of seven draped women dancing under a swirling starry sky, holding glowing cords aloft.

The Pleiades

1885

Painting of draped Greek women dancing and waving scarves on a sandy beach by the sea under a cloudy sky.

Greek Girls Bathing

1872

Small sketch of a rider on a donkey climbing stone steps while companions gesture beside a wall.

The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey

1867

Painting of a dark sea serpent coiled over a grassy sand dune beside a turquoise ocean under a pale pink sky.

Lair of the Sea Serpent

1899

Painting of red poppies in a garden below a low wall, with dark cypress trees and a pale cloudy sky.

Cypress and Poppies

1880

Lunette painting of a central nude allegorical figure with a lyre, scales and fruit branch, flanked by seated and winged figu

Rome Representative of the Arts

1894

Classical female figure with laurel wreath holding a scroll, framed by scrolling ribbons on a gold semicircular ground.

Poetry

1893

Bounty

1893

Lunette painting of a draped woman holding a gold casket and chain inside a laurel wreath, with ribbon scrollwork on gold.

Wealth

1893

Semicircular panel showing a dancing woman in classical dress holding comic and tragic masks inside a laurel wreath, on gold

Drama

1893

Semicircular painting of a classical female figure holding a trumpet and laurel wreath, framed by a laurel ring and gold scro

Fame

1893

Lunette painting of a dancing woman holding pan pipes and a tambourine within a laurel wreath on a gold ground.

Music

1893

Gilded lunette showing a dancing woman with grapes and a cup inside a laurel wreath, framed by pink and grey ribbons.

Frivolity

1893

Red chalk and white highlight drawing of folded drapery on orange-toned paper, study for a costumed figure.

drapery study for costumed male torso

1900

Graphite and white chalk study of two hands gripping tubular objects, drawn on grey paper.

studies of two hands holding flutes (?)

1900

Charcoal sketch of a rocky hill with shrubs and layered ground on grey paper, inscribed 'Tmui of Ptolemy'.

Nile Journey, Tmui of Ptolemy

1890