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Edwin Lord Weeks
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The_Old_Blue-Tiled_Mosque_Outside_of_Delhi,_India
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ca._1885(1885)
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_79.6_x_64.8_cm_(31.34_x_25.51_in)
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The Old Blue-Tiled Mosque Outside of Delhi, India
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| ca. 1885(1885)
Oil on canvas
79.6 x 64.8 cm (31.34 x 25.51 in)
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American Academic Painter, 1849-1903, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.
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