Mashup of: “The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain”

By:  Greg
June 14, 2012 9:14 am | Category: Single Image
Mashup of: “The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain”

This is a mashup of Jerome B. Thompson’s 1858 painting, “The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain”, and a photo taken by Greg Petrics from approximately the same vantage point under approximately the same lighting conditions as the painting in June 2012.

This excerpt of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s description of the painting is not to be missed:

As the sun sets and the evening breeze picks up, one sensible fellow holds up his watch to warn that they must soon depart. His companions ignore him, caring not that their way down the mountain will soon become difficult, even perilous. They are enraptured by the moment, the beauties of nature, and the possibilities of courtship at dusk…

To view a higher resolution version of the image, click here. (To download the image, right [or control] click, and select “save as”)

One Comments

  1. I'm a crappy skier
    wrote on July 27th, 2012 at 5:08 pm  
    1

    Awesome!!!!!! This is calendar worthy

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