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Edwin Lord Weeks
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Description
- Edwin Lord Weeks
- Blue-tiled Mosque at Delhi, India
signed E L Weeks (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 21 3/4 by 18 1/4 in.
- 55.2 by 46.3cm
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Artist's Estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, March 17, 1905, no. 202
G. Dupont (acquired at the above sale)
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. 202
G. Dupont (acquired at the above sale)
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. 202
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India, 2002, essay by Ulrich Hiesinger, p.73, pl. 16
Catalogue Note
This painting was described in the catalogue of the artist's estate sale as follows: "A party of native trading horses. Just outside the mosque they are haggling and wrangling over the merits of a dappled gray horse, who is peacefully awaiting his fate and only too glad to rest."