Daniel Ridgway KnightPreliminary Drawing for A Harvest Lunch, Graphite on Paper, Circa 1890, c. 1890
$4,500
Preliminary Drawing for A Harvest Lunch, Graphite on Paper, Circa 1890
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Drawing for A Harvest Lunch, c. 1890 Graphite on wove paper Unsigned c. 1890 Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010 Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos) Condition: Excellent Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York A preliminary drawing for the painting A Harvest Lunch Included in the catalogue raisonn of the artist's work published by Rehs Galleries, catalog raisonne no. SF1006. Sames pose in a wheat field, lacking picnic meal. The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre. "Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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