Portrait of Two Men

1900

American 20th Century

Associated Names
The image shows two men standing side by side. Both are captured from head to toe, standing upright in a frontal position. The man on the left has a narrow face, prominent ears, and dark hair styled with a side part. He is wearing a longsleeve button-up shirt with a high collar, light-colored trousers, and holding a pitchfork. The man on the right has a broader face, short hair styled similarly with a side part, and is wearing a light-colored shirt with rolled-up sleeves, light trousers, and holding a hat while resting one arm on a large rake. The background is a painted studio backdrop depicting classical garden scenes, including a statue, foliage, and distant landscape, on a wall. The floor is patterned, suggesting an indoor studio setting.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19.1 × 14.6 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)
    mount: 21.7 × 16.4 cm (8 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.30.149


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Larry Gottheim Fine Early Photographs, Binghamton, NY); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 23 March 1993; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite circled: 13; lower center: Son of Garret Smith; bottom left: 892MC.1; bottom right: 92:330


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