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Edwin Lord Weeks
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Description
- Edwin Lord Weeks
- Feeding the Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur
signed and inscribed E L Weeks/Jeypore; indistinctly inscribed and dated on the canvas reverse
- oil on canvas
- 18 1/4 by 22 1/4 in.
- 46.3 by 56.5cm
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Artist's Estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, March 17, 1905, no. 248
Arthur E. Braun, Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Ernst (daughter of the above)
Thence by descent
Artist's Estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, March 17, 1905, no. 248
Arthur E. Braun, Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Ernst (daughter of the above)
Thence by descent
Exhibited
American Art Association, New York, Finished Pictures, Studies, Sketches and Original Drawings by the Late Edwin Lord Weeks, March 17, 1905, no. 248
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India, 2002, essay by Ulrich Hiesinger, p. 95, pl. 38
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India, 2002, essay by Ulrich Hiesinger, p. 95, pl. 38
Literature
Edwin Lord Weeks, "Painter's Impressions of Rajpootana," Harper's, November 1894, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 903-922, illustrated
-------------------------, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896, illustrated p. 239
D. Dodge Thompson, "Edwin Lord Weeks, American Painter of India," Antiques, August 1985, vol. 128, no. 2, illustrated p. 251, pl. V
Catalogue Note
This painting was described in the artist's estate sale as follows: "By the liberality of the Rajah of Jeypore hundreds of pigeons are fed twice a day in the great square outside the palace. In the background are seen walls of a Temple entrance guarded by stone elephants."