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Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor

1862
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 756
Lane, a native of the coastal community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is celebrated for his spare compositions that focus on essential naturalistic effects over topographical details. Here, the overgrown Stage Fort— a relic of the seventeenth-century English settlement of Gloucester—sits on an arching landform that leads the eye into the serene, glowing distance. The light is unearthly, and the slack sails reveal the utter stillness of the air and water. The painting’s disquieting stasis, even with its hopeful pink glow, creates the hermetic, elegiac mood characteristic of Lane’s late work.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title:
    Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
  • Artist:
    Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) (1804–1865)
  • Date:
    1862
  • Culture:
    American
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions:
    38 x 60 in. (96.5 x 152.4 cm)
  • Credit Line:
    Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, Erving and Joyce Wolf Fund, Raymond J. Horowitz Gift, Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, by exchange, and John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1978
  • Object Number:
    1978.203
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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