United States / 1867
Vale of Kashmir
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Vale of Kashmir as painting (United States · 1867).
During the Civil War, Duncanson relocated to Montreal, where he inspired several Canadian landscape painters.
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on canvas and credits Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872).
The museum's collection notes: Cincinnati-based Duncanson was the first African American artist to achieve recognition both nationally and abroad. This panoramic painting, one of his grandest, was inspired by an episode in Thomas Moore’s then-popular epic poem, Lalla-Rookh (1817), which describes a Persian princess’s journey to the Indian subcontinent to be married. In Duncanson’s conception, members of a courtly entourage depart a quasi-Islamic palace, arriving by boat onto a scrim of land where they ascend a monumental staircase to a plaza with a fountain spraying an impressive plume of water. Despite these substantial storytelling details, the human elements remain subo
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