1892 (ca.), Edwin Lord Weeks, The Rajah Starting on a Hunt -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Boston-born and Paris-trained, Edwin Lord Weeks was a leading expatriate painter, illustrator, photographer, writer, explorer, and collector as well as the first known American artist to visit India. This painting depicts preparations for a hunting expedition at a palace in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Likely dating from the artist's 1892-93 trip to the country, he described the palace façade in his published accounts as "completely covered by tiers of projecting windows... wonderfully light and airy in effect." The striking period frame is not original to the painting, but suggests the "Orientalist"-style setting that Weeks favored for his work.
1892 (ca.), Edwin Lord Weeks, The Rajah Starting on a Hunt -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Boston-born and Paris-trained, Edwin Lord Weeks was a leading expatriate painter, illustrator, photographer, writer, explorer, and collector as well as the first known American artist to visit India. This painting depicts preparations for a hunting expedition at a palace in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Likely dating from the artist's 1892-93 trip to the country, he described the palace façade in his published accounts as "completely covered by tiers of projecting windows... wonderfully light and airy in effect." The striking period frame is not original to the painting, but suggests the "Orientalist"-style setting that Weeks favored for his work.