Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket
Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)
1862
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Paper: 22.7 x 18.2 cm (8 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The women depicted outdoors by Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot are usually enjoying leisure activities in urban or suburban gardens or parks. During the same era, scenes of rural labor were popular subjects for many painters, who sometimes turned to photographs as models for the figures in those paintings. Another print of this photograph and several other images of the same girl were owned by the novelist Victor Hugo, a champion of the working classes. Edmond Bacot took them while visiting Hugo.
