Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000364Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket
by Edmond Bacot
Also known as: Study of a Young Peasant Girl
About the Artwork
The women depicted outdoors by Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot are usually enjoying leisure activities in urban or suburban gardens or parks. During the same era, scenes of rural labor were popular subjects for many painters, who 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) November 23, 1998: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 27-August 9, 2000). Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)
- Date
- 1862
- 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.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1998.273
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