Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

albumen print from wet collodion negativeEdmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)/1862

Description

Those painters 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.

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Dimensions

22.7 × 18.2 cm

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Movement / Period

Photography

Accession No

1998.273

Official Citations

[The Cleveland Museum of Art Official Record][Full Resolution Image]

Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)

Photography • France, 19th century • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries

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