다니엘 리즈웨이 나이트 Daniel Ridgway Knight(1839-1924)

미국의 펜실바니아에서 출생

프랑스의 ecole des Beaux-Arts 에서 미술 공부

프랑스의 롤부아즈(Rolleboise) 지방을 배경으로 여인들의 삶을 그렸다. 

자연주의 화풍을 많이 그렸다.

 

Daniel Ridgway Knight (15 March 1839 – 9 March 1924) was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

 

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Knight was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.[1]

He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He earned his first major distinction in France at the Paris Salon in 1882 with his large oil on canvas Un Deuil.[2] He would go on to be awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893.[1]

He died in Paris.[citation needed] His son, Louis Aston Knight (1873–1948), was also known as a landscape painter.[1]

The catalogue raisonné research on Daniel Ridgway Knight's life and work is being conducted by Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City.[3]

A Field of Flowers

낫을 들고 가축에게 먹일 여물을 한껏 베고 보자기로 쌓다. 프랑스면 양이나 젖소의 여물일 가능성이 높다. 여인은 누군가를 보고 있는 듯 하다. 소여물을 가지러 오는 남편을 기다릴수 있다. 당시 시대의 소품과 의상들을 자세히 그렸다. 

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