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Three Trees: Italy
Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)
1871
- Medium
- oil on card on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The American painter Elihu Vedder spent almost all of his career after 1866 in Rome, where this small landscape was painted. The inscription shows that it was given as a souvenir to Edmund A. Ward of New York, who had purchased a large painting from the artist.