TitleVitre, France, Evening
Artist
Elihu Vedder
(1836 - 1923)
Date[1866]
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 4 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.
Framed: 10 × 17 3/4 × 7/8 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Vedder. Vitre"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1955
Object number1551-P
Label TextThis work was assigned the date of 1866 in the catalogue of the 1937 American Academy exhibition of Vedder's work. As is indicated in the inscription, Vedder was traveling and sketching in France with the American artist Charles Caryl Coleman in the years after the Civil War when he exectued this and a number of other small compositions depicting Vitre and the landscape around it.
