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The Rajah Starting on a Hunt Large Framed Print
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"The Rajah Starting on a Hunt" by Edwin Lord Weeks is a famous painting depicting preparations for a hunting expedition at a palace in Ajmer, Rajasthan, this unfinished canvas probably dates from Weeks’s 1892 trip to India and may have been painted from photographs or sketches upon his return to Paris.
The façade of this palace is completely covered by tiers of projecting windows, of varying design, in which white alternates with brownstone, all remarkable for breadth and delicacy of treatment, and the whole pile is wonderfully light and airy in effect. |
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The Rajah Starting on a Hunt Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat •
25x36 inches
"The Rajah Starting on a Hunt" by Edwin Lord Weeks is a famous painting depicting preparations for a hunting expedition at a palace in Ajmer, Rajasthan, this unfinished canvas probably dates from Weeks’s 1892 trip to India and may have been painted from photographs or sketches upon his return to Paris. The façade of this palace is completely covered by tiers of projecting windows, of varying design, in which white alternates with brownstone, all remarkable for breadth and delicacy of treatment, and the whole pile is wonderfully light and airy in effect.
Edwin Lord Weeks is one of the most celebrated of the American Orientalists. Most of his paintings render empathy and belonging than a patronising or condescending portrayal. Weeks who travelled and painted in Mathura, Benaras, Agra, Delhi, Amritsar and Bombay shows a mastery of artistic detail: most of his paintings bring together an amalgam of society, replete with men, women, animals, structures and dust; the royalty is incidental. A busy marketplace or a solitary mosque. Original Weeks' paintings today command prices in excess of a million dollars at auctions.