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Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

1862

Edmond Bacot

(French, 1814–1875)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1998.273
Public Domain
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Location
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Print
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While Impressionist painters were depicting women outdoors in gardens and parks, scenes of rural labor were popular subjects for many other painters.

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.
A vertically oriented albumen print depicts a light-skinned girl seated on straw. She leans her right arm against an overturned wicker basket, pressing her hand to her face. She wears a dark cap, a striped bodice, and a full skirt. Her mouth is slightly open as she looks toward us. One bare foot extends to the right, and nearby, wooden clogs rest on the straw.

Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

1862

Edmond Bacot

(French, 1814–1875)
France, 19th century

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