The Long Rest, Illustration for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

A pale nude woman with long dark hair stands on a stair beside a draped cloth, head bowed, while a tall inscribed panel of verse rises above a dark tomb-like niche. Smoke curls from a snuffed lamp, and a skull-like form and a playing card rest at lower right. Drawn in chalk and pencil with white highlights on toned paper.

Artist

Elihu Vedder

Date

1883-1884

Medium

chalk and pencil on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2384 × 3000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum