Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

Description

Typically during this period, portraits of working-class girls were made as ethnographic or artistic studies of types.

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 23, 1998)

Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

Edmond Bacot

1862

Accession Number

1998.273

Medium

albumen print from wet collodion negative

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.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund