The Cellist
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The American expatriate Edwin Lord Weeks, like many nineteenth-century European artists, was known for his “exotic” North African and Middle Eastern subjects. However, he also undertook paintings based on three extended visits to India (in 1882, 1886, and 1892). In these works, Weeks’s talent for the dynamic transcription of brilliant light and color allowed him to represent foreign subjects in a picturesque way that appealed to Western audiences. Here, he offered the colorful, if weathered, tiled facade of a mosque as a diverting counterpoint to the subject of two armed men in conversation with an old man in a dhoti (a traditional Indian garment).
Caption
Max Weber American, born Russia, 1881–1961. The Cellist, 1917. Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 20 1/8in. (41 x 51.1cm) Frame: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (72.4 x 62.2 x 5.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward Rosenberg, 78.267. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 78.267_SL1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Cellist
Date
1917
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
16 1/8 x 20 1/8in. (41 x 51.1cm) Frame: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (72.4 x 62.2 x 5.7 cm)
Signatures
Signed and dated lower left: MAX WEBER '17
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Edward Rosenberg
Accession Number
78.267
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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