Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903), Loading the Camels, Salé, Morocco, alternately titled Along the Nile and Loading in the Donkeys, Near East

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Lot Description

Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903)

Loading the Camels, Salé, Morocco, alternately titled Along the Nile and Loading in the Donkeys, Near East
Signed "E.L. Weeks" l.r., identified on a label from The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, affixed to the foamcore backing board, dated to c. 1880 in a letter from Edward S. Levin (see below).
Oil on canvas, 22 1/4 x 36 in. (56.5 x 91.0 cm), framed.
Condition: Fine, stable craquelure, vertical stretcher bar mark to center, a small drop of glue or similar on the reverse corresponding to a negligible protrusion in the sky in the u.l. quadrant.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, February 22, 1989, Lot 70, as Along the Nile; to the current private Massachusetts collection.

Literature: Exposition des Beaux Arts/Salon de 1880 (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880), p. 383 for related work Un embarquement de chameaux sur la plage de Salé, Maroc; Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists (Courbevoie, Paris: ACR Édition, 1994), p. 252, incorrectly identified as Along the Nile.

N.B. This work will be included in the forthcoming Edwin Lord Weeks catalogue raisonné from the Ellen K. Morris archives, now in preparation by Edward S. Levin. The painting was reviewed via high-resolution digital images by Mr. Levin, who has provided a Letter of Authentication that accompanies the lot.

In his letter, Mr. Levin provides the revised, descriptive title, "Loading the Camels, Salé, Morocco." He notes that the painting relates directly to Weeks' important, larger painting Un embarquement de chameaux sur la plage de Salé, Maroc, which, when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1880, established the artist as a major orientalist painter of recognized talent. Rather than a Nile view, the scene depicts the loading of camels into barges to cross the estuary that separates Rabat, Morocco, from its sister city, Salé.

We would like to thank Edward Levin for his kind assistance cataloging this lot.

Condition

Condition: Framed dimensions are 33 3/4 x 47 5/8 x 3 inches.

The painting is tautly stretched. It appears to have been cleaned, and under UV, there is some fluorescence in the sky that seems to be new varnish.

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