Portrait of mother and child
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Frenet
(French, 1814 - 1889)
Dateca. 1855
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 7/8 inches (23.34 × 17.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.50.25
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil, faded/illegible;
On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "C* 020797"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a child seated on a woman's lap at a small table. The woman looks away with arms around the child, he smiles and rests his head on his hand.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Trained as a painter, Jean-Baptiste Frénet took up photography in the early 1850s as an aid to his practice as an artist. This portrait of a mother and child has a beautiful and unusual quality of spontaneity and intimacy. Frénet is still a relatively little-known figure; his photographs are rare and held by only a few major institutions.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
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