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Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market
ArtistJohn Lewis Krimmel
Year1811
MediumOil on canvas
MovementGenre painting
Dimensions49.5 cm × 39.4 cm (19.5 in × 15.5 in)
LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by American artist John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821). It was painted in Philadelphia in 1811. Donated by Edward Barnes Leisenring Jr. in 2001, the work is held in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting depicts a free Black woman, a street vendor, ladling out pepper pot soup, a Philadelphia staple, to hungry customers.

Pepper-Pot was one of the first paintings to depict an African American worker in Philadelphia, while Krimmel was the first Philadelphia artist to feature street scenes in the fine arts. The diverse races, ages, and social classes depicted in the painting contribute to making it a notable work of early American art.

References

  1. "Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market" (PDF). Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  2. "Africans in America/Part 3/Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market". PBS. 1999. Archived from the original on September 17, 2024. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  3. Harding, Anneliese (December 2003). "British and Scottish Models for the American Genre Paintings of John Lewis Krimmel". Winterthur Portfolio. 38 (4): 221–244. doi:10.1086/426758. ISSN 0084-0416.
  4. Harding, Anneliese (1994). John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic. Winterthur Publications. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-0-912724-25-6.

External links

Philadelphia Museum of Art page about the painting

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