Sujet
Winding Yarn (Interior of a Nantucket Kitchen), 1872. Creator: Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906).
Légende
Winding Yarn (Interior of a Nantucket Kitchen), 1872. Several of Johnson?s most acclaimed works were inspired by Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where he summered after acquiring property in the early 1870s. Set in a rustic kitchen interior, this painting depicts a woman who winds a ball of yarn from a coil looped in the hands of a man sitting across from her at a respectable distance. At the time, winding yarn was a common symbol of courtship that carried humorous overtones of a woman ensnaring her suitor. The second woman in the composition is likely a chaperone. The suitor?s unrefined, open-legged pose, coupled with his uncouth action of placing his hat on the floor, adds further comic elements that audiences at the time would have appreciated.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G19_376
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
48,9Mo (3,1Mo) / 42,3cm x 28,9cm / 5000 x 3416 (300dpi)