The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 17, 2025

Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

1862

Edmond Bacot

(French, 1814–1875)
France, 19th century
albumen print from wet collodion negative
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.)
John L. Severance Fund 1998.273
Location: Not on view

Description

Typically during this period, portraits of working-class girls were made as ethnographic or artistic studies of types.
  • (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY)
    November 23, 1998
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017).
    19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 27-August 9, 2000).
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