16 Works, Today, February 26th. is artist Elihu Vedder’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #057
Feb 26, 2021
The Questioner of the Sphinx, c. 1863
Oil on canvas
92.07 x 107.31 cm (36 1/4 x 42 1/4 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 — January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam…