Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was an American Orientalist painter known for vivid depictions of Middle Eastern and Indian scenes. In 1872 Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. He traveled extensively through Asia, capturing bustling bazaars, architecture, and daily life with remarkable detail and atmospheric light.
A Fête Day at Bekanir – Beloochistan (1895-1903) is a panoramic oil painting capturing the vibrant foundation‑day celebration at Bikaner Palace (now Junagarh Fort) in Rajasthan. Weeks constructed the scene from numerous oil studies made during his January 1893 expedition, later assembled in his Paris studio. The imposing palace façade—with white lower tiers, yellow upper levels, lattice galleries, and red‑draped mid‑storeys—rises over a courtyard crowded with elaborately draped elephants and camels, richly adorned figures, and onlookers. Weeks’s evocative writing describes the fortress as imposing and towering many stories, with the courtyard alive with groups of liveried figures, servants, and smoothly bubbling hookahs.
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was an American Orientalist painter known for vivid depictions of Middle Eastern and Indian scenes. In 1872 Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. He traveled extensively through Asia, capturing bustling bazaars, architecture, and daily life with remarkable detail and atmospheric light.
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A Fête Day at Bekanir – Beloochistan (1895-1903) is a panoramic oil painting capturing the vibrant foundation‑day celebration at Bikaner Palace (now Junagarh Fort) in Rajasthan. Weeks constructed the scene from numerous oil studies made during his January 1893 expedition, later assembled in his Paris studio. The imposing palace façade—with white lower tiers, yellow upper levels, lattice galleries, and red‑draped mid‑storeys—rises over a courtyard crowded with elaborately draped elephants and camels, richly adorned figures, and onlookers. Weeks’s evocative writing describes the fortress as imposing and towering many stories, with the courtyard alive with groups of liveried figures, servants, and smoothly bubbling hookahs.
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