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Christa Zaat



Edwin Lord Weeks (American artist) 1849 - 1903
Camels at the Well, Tangiers, 1880
oil on canvas
26.7 x 39.5 cm. (10.5 x 15.5 in.)
signed 'E.L. Weeks' (lower right); dated 'Tangiers, Xmas Day/ 1880' (on the reverse)
private collection

Catalogue Note Bonhams
Painted in December 1880, this painting is related to a larger work from 1878 measuring 27 x 42 inches, titled Camels at the Well - Sallee, Morocco, which was included in Weeks' estate sale in 1905, and sold at Sotheby's, New York on 22 May 1985, from the collection of Coral Petroleum, Inc. The scene is described in the estate catalogue as follows: "Two camels have been led up to the well to drink by a young Moorish girl in her native costume, while the old camel-driver kneels and draws up the water" (Catalogue of Very Important Finished Pictures, Studies, Sketches and Original Drawings by the Late Edwin Lord Weeks, American Art Associations, New York, 1905, No. 203).

This work will be included in the forthcoming Weeks catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dr. Ellen K. Morris.