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A meeting at a temple gateway in Mathura
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Lot Notes This is an imposing figurative painting within an elaborate architectural framework, likely based on studies Edwin Lord Weeks executed during his first expedition to India in 1882-83. Somewhat unusual for the artist, the setting is Hindu, a pink sandstone temple probably dedicated to Vishnu, as were many temples in the city of Muttra (today known as Mathura). Muttra, a small city near Delhi, was then, as today, a center of the cult of Krishna and a sacred city. As Weeks termed it, '[a]n ancient City and place of Pilgrimage.' (Empire of India Exhibition, Illustrated Official Catalogue, London, 1895, p. 210).."
American artist, painter and explorer, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.
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