Yachting Near Boston, Massachussetts
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.In these two yachting scenes, several layers of artifice—the calculated informality of the poses; the seamless blending of studio set and painted background; details such as a tilted deck, a flapping sail, a hand securing a hat against the wind—coalesce into a marvelous naturalism that belies the pictures’ cobbled-together construction.
Artwork Details
- Title: Yachting Near Boston, Massachussetts
- Artist: Notman Photographic Company, Boston (1880–1890) and
- Artist: Unknown
- Date: ca. 1880
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 16 x 23.3 cm (6 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: McCord Museum, Montreal
- Curatorial Department: Photographs