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The Rajah Starting On A Hunt

1892
oil on canvas
39 9/16 x 32 in. (100.5 x 81.3 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Temples And Bathing Ghat At Benares

ca. 1883-1885
oil on canvas
19 15/16 x 29 15/16 in. (50.6 x 76 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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The Old Blue-tiled Mosque Outside Of Delhi, India

ca. 1885
oil on canvas
31 5/16 x 25 1/2 in. (79.6 x 64.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Study Of A Moor In Blue

ca. 1878
oil on canvas board
19 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (49.6 x 32.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches, Fort Agra, India

ca. 1885-1895
oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 13 in. (48.9 x 33 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Native Shop In Bombay, India (Gwalior)

oil on canvas
39 1/8 x 31 5/8 in. (99.4 x 80.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Street Scene In India

ca. 1884-1888
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 3/4 in. (73.3 x 60.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Interior Of A Mosque At Cordova

ca. 1880
oil on canvas
H: 56 x W: 72 9/16 in. (142.2 x 184.3 cm); Framed H: 72 x W: 88 x D: 3 1/4 in. (182.9 x 223.5 x 8.3 cm)

The Walters Art Museum

Mount Vernon Baltimore, MD

notes
After studying in Paris with Jean-Leon Gerome and Leon Bonnat, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of orientalist subjects. He was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882-83). This work, set in the 8th-century great mosque of...
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The Taj Mahal

1883
oil on composition board
H: 20 1/2 x W: 30 5/16 in. (52 x 77 cm)

The Walters Art Museum

Mount Vernon Baltimore, MD

notes
Weeks was the most avid traveler among the American orientalists. He did not limit his journeys to the Near East, but also visited India in 1882 and again from 1892 through 1894. After returning to his studio in France, he specialized in Indian subjects, which were based on photographs and drawings made during his travels. In this painting, he...
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Before A Mosque

1883
Oil on canvas
49.5 x 74.3 cm (19.49" x 29.25")

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
A masjid is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word entered the English language most likely through French (mosquee), from Portuguese (mesquita), from Spanish (mezquita), and from Berber (tamezgida), ultimately originating in Arabic: masjid. The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration. The word "masjid" in English...
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