Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket (1862): Art, History and Details

Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket (1862) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket
• Date: 1862
• Creator attribution: Edmond Bacot (French, 1814–1875)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1998.273

A detail from the museum

While Impressionist painters were depicting women outdoors in gardens and parks, scenes of rural labor were popular subjects for many other painters.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

View the collection record

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