Portrait of a peasant woman
Original Language TitlePortrait d'une paysanne
Artist
Unknown
Dateca. 1860
MediumHand-colored albumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet (irregular): 12 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (31.12 × 26.67 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.6.16
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, lower left, in pencil: "300963";
On mount verso, lower right, white pencil/chalk: "X";
On mount verso, center, white pencil/chalk: [illegible]
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DescriptionHand-colored portrait of a woman seated with arms crossed across lap. She wears a dark black dress with a scarf over her shoulders, a brooch, and a lace bonnet.Exhibition HistoryFrench Primitive Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 17 - December 28, 1969, cover illustration.
Before the first commercial full-color photographic process was introduced in 1907, photographers hand-colored their monochromatic images. While these color applications were usually subtle— hints of pink added to a subject’s cheeks or blue tints applied to an item of clothing—sometimes they were more audacious. As these two prints demonstrate, photographers sometimes painted heavily on their prints, creating bold photographic-painterly hybrids.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
André Jammes, French Primitive Photography, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art (New York: Aperture, 1969), cover illustration.
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