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Mother with Two Children

c. 1855
(French, 1814–1889)
France
salted paper print from a collodion negative
Paper: 23.1 x 16.5 cm (9 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2001.5
Location: not on view
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Frénet was one of the earliest photographers to take spontaneous, rather rigidly formal, portraits.

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After anti-government political activity closed off his professional opportunities as a painter, Jean-Baptiste Frénet took up photography in 1850 and a decade later opened a commercial portrait studio. He preferred simple, plain settings and relied on sitters’ interactions to reveal their personalities and relationships. This family grouping, probably taken for personal pleasure, offers a sense of casual immediacy unusual for the time in both painted and photographic portraiture.

Mother with Two Children

c. 1855

Jean-Baptist Frénet

(French, 1814–1889)
France

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