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| Keywords: Edwin Lord Weeks - Interior of a Mosque at Cordova - Walters 37169 (2).jpg After studying in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of orientalist subjects He was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America 1869 Egypt and Persia 1870 Morocco frequently between 1872 and 1878 and India 1882-83 This work set in the 8th-century great mosque of Cordova in Spain may have been begun in 1880 while Weeks was staying in that city In Weeks' estate sale catalogue the scene was described as follows Preaching the holy war against the Christians the old Moor holds aloft the green flag of Mohammed while he curses the dogs of Christians with true religious fervor and calls upon Mohammed to drive them out of Spain Despite the painting's illusion of reality such a jihad or holy war would never have been called for in a mosque ca 1880 Oil on canvas cm 142 2 184 3 ; Framed cm 182 9 223 5 8 3 accession number 37 169 22767 Edwin Lord Weeks date and mode of acquisition unknown Edwin Lord Weeks Collection Sale American Art Galleries New York March 15-17 1905 no 269 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1905 Noble Dreams Wicked Pleasures Orientalism in America 1870-1930 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte 2000-2001 L'Orientalisme de Delacroix a Kandinsky Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique Brussels; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich; Musée des Beaux-Arts Marseille Marseille 2010-2011 place of origin France <gallery> File Edwin Lord Weeks - Interior of a Mosque at Cordova - Walters 37169 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D Edwin Lord Weeks Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review American paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
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