# Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

- By: Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.273)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.273/1998.273_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.