Edwin Lord Weeks

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 27, 1888, lot 61A, illustrated

London, The Empire of India Exhibition, 1895, p. 211, no. 41 (as The Front of a Red Sandstone Palace at Jodhpore, the first stage of 1887)
Monte Carlo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'Exposition Internationale des Beaux-Arts de la Principauté de Monaco, 1899, p. 62, no. 467 (the completed work)

Edwin Lord Weeks, From the Black Sea Through Persia and India, New York, 1895, p. 209 (for discussion of the first stage of 1877)
D. Doge Thompson, "Edwin Lord Weeks: American Painter of India," Antiques, vol. CXXVIII, no. 2, August 1985, p. 249, fig. 2 (illustration of the original study hanging together with the present work within a photograph, circa 1890, of the artist's studio)

This painting is in original unlined condition. Under UV, uneven varnish fluoresces as a result of a selective cleaning, with old varnish remaining on the figures, elephants and in details in the buildings at right.
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Weeks completed the architectural elements of the present work in situ in 1887, and he painted the figures upon returning to his Paris studio (circa 1890).