File:Man in Armor (preparatory sketch for Entering the Mosque).jpg
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Edwin Lord Weeks: Man in Armor (preparatory sketch for Entering the Mosque) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Man in Armor (preparatory sketch for Entering the Mosque) label QS:Len,"Man in Armor (preparatory sketch for Entering the Mosque)" |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
This outstanding figure study of an armored Moghul horseman relates to a series of paintings of historical subjects, evocative of the 17th Century imperial Moghul court, which Edwin Lord Weeks executed between the mid-1880s and the mid-1890s. The present work was directly incorporated into a painting in which this figure appears as a mounted guard escorting a royal prince ascending the steps of a palace. Indeed, this work is more than an 'oil sketch' in the conventional sense. The figure, so precisely detailed, is depicted astride a horse and rendered faithfully in handsome profile with his golden helmet, the chain mail vest, the magnificent damascened steel shield, down to the fancy boots and stirrups. Yet the work retains Weeks' characteristic balance between academic precision and painterly impression, as the entire figure is played against an abstract, flickering surface of brushwork. A few deft lines represent the profile of the horse's neck and back, while the lower area of russet, suggesting the flank of the horse, and the upper area of ochre, suggesting the plaster walls of the palace beyond, are simply treated as 'memories' of color and form for the artist's later reference in a full-scale painting. The present work was executed in situ in India, and it is likely that the accoutrements it depicts were borrowed from the museums or archives of one of Weeks' Indian hosts and modeled for him on a contemporary figure." |
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Date | 1885 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 46.4 cm (18.2 in) ; width: 31.8 cm (12.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+46.4U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+31.8U174728 |
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Place of creation | United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
The Artist's Estate Sale; American Art Galleries, New York, 15, 16, 17 March 1905, lot 34. Anonymous sale Sotheby's, New York, 30 Nov 2000, lot 145 (as Man in Armor). |
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References |
American Art Galleries, Catalogue of Very Important Finished Pictures, Studies, Sketches and Original Drawings by the Late Edwin Lord Weeks, New York, 1905, Lot 34. K. Davies, The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia and India, New York, 2005, p. 243 (illustrated). |
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