Description:
Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)
Classical Figure in a Garden
Monogrammed and dated "18V76" l.l., inscribed and signed by the artist "To Miss Brewster/with best wishes of/Elihu Vedder/Christmas 1876" in ink to l.c. of frame.
Oil on canvas, 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. (21.6 x 11.1 cm),in the original frame.
Condition: Varnish discoloration, surface grime, minor surface imperfections.
N.B. The lot is accompanied by Elihu Vedder's autobiography Digressions of V: Written for his own fun and that of his friends (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910).
Estimate $1,000-1,500
Minor diagonal crease or similar to canvas at l.r. corner (possibly an inconsistency in the canvas weave?),but with no break to the paint surface. The work needs cleaning.
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