"Indian Dancing Girl" by Edwin lord weeks who was one of America's major painters of Orientalist subjects.In this painting, Weeks invites the viewer to join the audience of a Nautch dancer as she performs on an urban street entrancing the audience around her.

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), 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.