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Peasant Girl, spinning
1867 painting by Elihu Vedder
| Peasant Girl, spinning | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Elihu Vedder |
| Year | 1867 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 40.7 cm × 24.7 cm (16.0 in × 9.7 in) |
Peasant Girl, spinning is the title given by nineteenth century Americanexpatriate artist Elihu Vedder to an oil painting on canvas that depicts a young female figure spinning wool into thread. The work was completed in 1867 at the artist's studio in Via Margutta, Rome, and represents a slightly scaled up, slightly elaborated version of a theme Vedder had first developed in an oil sketch during the summer of the same year.[1]
Description
[edit]The painting depicts a young peasant girl, standing in profile on a hillside, transferring wool fibers from a distaff to a spindle that dangles from her right hand. She is barefoot and wears traditional costume consisting of a white shirt with sleeves rolled up, a blue frock, and a tattered red apron that sways in the wind. Strewn rocks and sparse tufts of vegetation punctuate a dry and otherwise barren landscape on what a combination of bright areas of paint and corresponding shadows suggest to have been a hot summer day.
In this early work from relatively shortly after Vedder'
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Relationships of Vedder, Elihu
Arnold, George (1834-1865)
Vedder, Elihu. The Digressions of V., Written for his Own Fun and that of His Friends, by Elihu Vedder; Containing the Quaint Legends of his Infancy, an Account of his Stay in Florence, the Garden of Lost Opportunities, Return Home on the Track of Columbus, His Struggle. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1910. [pages:227-8]
Vedder writes that Arnold used to live near him and keep him company while he was working on his paintings (227-8).
Mallen, Edward
Vedder, Elihu. The Digressions of V., Written for his Own Fun and that of His Friends, by Elihu Vedder; Containing the Quaint Legends of his Infancy, an Account of his Stay in Florence, the Garden of Lost Opportunities, Return Home on the Track of Columbus, His Struggle. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1910. [pages:218-220]
Vedder describes their short relationship: "How he died or when he died I never knew. He simply faded out of my life; yet I would very much like to hunt up in the pages of ‘Vanity Fair’ those forgotten gems of his” (220).
Martin, Homer Dodge (1836-1897)
Vedder, Elihu. The Digressions of V., Written for his Own Fun and that of His Friends, by Elihu Vedder; Containing the Quaint Legends of his Infanc