Genre scene
Artist
Jeanette Vogt Bernard
(American, 1855 - 1941)
Dateca. 1895-1900
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 3/16 inches (15.72 × 20.8 cm)
Mount: 8 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (21.59 × 24.13 cm)
Mount: 8 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (21.59 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3887
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DescriptionImage of a woman wearing a long dress seated facing mirror. Beside her, a woman dusts a folding screen depicting outdoor images.Gallery LabelThis intriguing scene features a woman (likely the photographer herself) adjusting her hair in a mirror, while a maid dusts a folding screen to her right. The images on the folding screen depict farmers, suggesting a connection between domestic work (as symbolized by the maid) and outdoor labor. Such genre scenes, showing everyday activities, were common subjects for amateur photographers, like Bernard, who exhibited her works in photography contests and camera club exhibitions across the United States between 1890 and 1910.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1998;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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Jeanette Vogt Bernard
1907
2019.56.5
