Study of Drapery for Vedder's "Fortune"
A pastel and graphite study on lavender-gray paper shows a loose fold of drapery, rendered with white highlights and dark contour lines, with a hand or arm resting beneath it at right. Handwritten notes in the lower corners read "Fortune" and "drapery," with the artist's signature "E. Vedder" centered below.
- Artist
- Elihu Vedder
- Date
- ca. 1899
- Medium
- Pastel crayon, graphite on paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 2240 × 1411 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1904).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum