. English: The actual colors of the painting Source: +209854+1173394984+&QR=M+1+45+Aqc0000900+180100++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&RQ=True&AN=46 (downloaded May 2004) 'Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903). An open-air restaurant, Lahore; signed and dated ' Weeks' (lower right); oil on canvas. 62 x 96¾ in. ( x cm.). Painted circa 1889. An open-air restaurant, Lahore is one of Edwin Lord Weeks' most notable, widely-exhibited canvases. It is one of perhaps half a dozen monumentally-sized c
. English: The actual colors of the painting Source: +209854+1173394984+&QR=M+1+45+Aqc0000900+180100++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&RQ=True&AN=46 (downloaded May 2004) 'Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849-1903). An open-air restaurant, Lahore; signed and dated ' Weeks' (lower right); oil on canvas. 62 x 96¾ in. ( x cm.). Painted circa 1889. An open-air restaurant, Lahore is one of Edwin Lord Weeks' most notable, widely-exhibited canvases. It is one of perhaps half a dozen monumentally-sized canvases, and was executed in the artist's Paris studio circa 1889, about two years after his second expedition to India. The end of the 1880s was a fertile period for the artist, executing a number of his most important Indian paintings during that time. The present painting was exhibited along with The hour of prayer at the Pearl Mosque, Agra at the Paris Salon of 1889, where he was awarded a Gold Medal. This painting depicts a restaurant stall in the marketplace situated in the open plaza in front of the Mosque of Vazir Khan in Lahore. Weeks relates his impression of the scene in his expedition narrative: '...There is, in truth, a good deal of life and movement to be seen from the crumbling steps of Vazir Kahn; there are two domed now shelter various trades beneath the rude thatched awnings projecting from their in the middle of the square there are open-air restaurants, where great kettles of tinned copper stand upon platforms elevated above the ground and surrounded by rough benches; sooty frying-pans sizzle on little clay furnaces, and the keepers of these restaurants sit enthroned among their cooking the middle of the day, the benches are crowded with customers, who have the appearance of being peasants from the outlying great deal of horse-shoeing and veterinary practice is carried on in one corner, under a great tr
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