Market Scene

Painting

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Drexel Founding Collection

#4, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2025: Overall

Name/Title

Market Scene

Entry/Object ID

4

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Anthony J. Drexel, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 1893 Credit Line: Bequest of Anthony J. Drexel Means of Accession: Bequest

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Daniel Ridgway Knight

Role

Painter

Date made

1876

Place

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

61 in

Width

81 in

Dimension Notes

Framed

Height

39-1/2 in

Width

59 in

Dimension Notes

Unframed

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris. His paintings during the 1870s and 1880s focused on the peasant at work in the fields or doing the day’s chores.