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| Keywords: Another Rajasthani street scene by Edwin Lord Weeks.jpg en Another Rajasthani street scene by Edwin Lord Weeks 1887 probably in Udaipur Source http //www christies com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail asp sid highlights 3Cspan+class 3D 27esn 5Fsegment 27+title 3D 27 2FLotCommon 2FCatalogueEntry 27 3E 0AA+Street+Market+Scene 2C+ 3Cb 3E 3Cspan+class 3D 27esn 5Fhighlight 27 3EIndia 3C 2Fspan 3E 3C 2Fb 3E+ 26lt 3BBR 3C 2Fspan 3E+ 2E 2E 2E intObjectID 4800778 AllObjectIDs 4803582 4803587 4801548 4802265 4793188 4800859 4800778 4799488 4799822 4801547 4801555 4801581 4801553 4801340 4801558 4801556 4801554 4801482 4801559 4801557 RefineQueryURL AdvancedSearch 2Easp 3Fsid 3D 26entry 3Dindia 26T 3DLot 26P 3D 26CF 3D 26SU 3D1 26RQ 3DFalse 26AN 3D1 downloaded Oct 2006 Edwin Lord Weeks American 1849-1903 A Street Market Scene India; signed 'E L Weeks' and stamped with his Mogul device lower left ; oil on canvas 23¾ x 29 in 60 5 x 74 cm Painted circa 1887 Lot Notes A Street Market Scene India is a fine example of Edwin Lord Week's quotidian street scenes of northern India In these paintings Weeks demonstrated his great skills in draftsmanship color and texture in his precise yet suggestive visual records of his Indian travels-the very ordinariness of the scene contrasting sharply with the beautiful forms rich colors and textures of the elements and actors depicted The scene is entirely characteristic of north Indian city streets in which the street is the promenade and a row of shops occupy a built-up platform beneath an arcade of windows and bracketed balconies In the present work the city depicted is probably Udaipur then Oudeypore as suggested by the elaborate windows and shallow balconies depicted at the right side of the painting and by the white plaster covering thebuilding walls In his travel journal from the Black Sea through Persia and India Weeks wrote of Udaipur as 'an endless expanse of white ' The painting was executed circa 1887 in two stages Initially the architectural backdrop of the picture would have been painted in situ; a plein air rendering of the physical context The second stage of the painting would have been executed either while still in India or more likely some time later in the artist's studio in Paris In this second 'campaign' the figures and animals would have been added to the painting based upon a multitude of such elements and poses Weeks had executed in India The present painting is highly finished suggesting it was completed in Week's Paris studio a metalsmith's shop in the shadowed background of white walls and delicately fashioned arched openings The whitewashed setting serves as an an almost neutral background off which the artist plays with great still-life of dancing color and reflections - from a large copper pot to copper and brass jugs and bowls stacked on high The pot in the woman's hands brilliantly reflects the sunlight in its brassy colors and reflections The figures too are brilliantly rendered with variegated silk and cotton embroidered costumes and flowing translucent white muslin The women's arms are covered in silver bracelets their ears in long silver earrings and their necks in goldnecklaces - all of which suggests they may be nautch dancers from the Court The women's bare midriffs unusual in more southern parts of India caught Weeks' attention at the time 'In all the north country costumes there is a wide gap between the bodice and the skirts and the wearer never seems anxious to conceal it' Weeks' letter to the president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art September 18 1883 The painting relates to and very favorably compares to other Weeks paintings of this genre including A Street Scene in the East National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution The Soldier of the Rajah Coming to the Sword Sharpener of Ahmedabad Portland Museum of Art and A Street Scene in North West India probably Udaipur sold at Christie's London 24 September 2003 lot 86 This last work shows a Rajput in blue silk on a similar horse and two young women dressed exactly like the two women in the present painting though rendered in shade instead of the brilliant light of the present work A favorite device in many of these paintings is a Rajput noble atop or standing next to his elaborately-saddled horse turned towards the shop fronts engaged in studying items for sale or often seen in flirtations with young women dressed in a manner similar to the figures in the present painting all with comely faces or profiles We are grateful to D Ellen K Morris for providing the catalogue entry for this work This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dr Ellen K Morris 1887 http //www columbia edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/women/balconies/balconies html creator Edwin Lord Weeks PD-old-100 Historical images of Udaipur Paintings of India by Edwin Lord Weeks 19th-century orientalist paintings 19th-century paintings location missing | ||||
