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[Boy in Uniform]

ca. 1855
Not on view
Known until recently as a painter and draftsman of portraits and religious and allegorical subjects-a member of the so-called Mystic School of mid-nineteenth-century painting in Lyon-Jean-Baptiste Frénet also turns out to have been a remarkably fine photographer. Like so many other painters, he took up the camera in the mid-1850s, first as an amateur and later, beginning 1860, as a professional.
Among the most painterly and engaging of Frénet's pre-professional images-when his family and friends were his models and his garden was his studio-is this darkly printed and deeply Romantic portrait of a boy in his school uniform. Nestled among the foliage and subsumed by shadow, the youth's sensitive features temper and humanize his princely pose.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Boy in Uniform]
  • Artist: Jean-Baptiste Frénet (French, 1814–1889)
  • Date: ca. 1855
  • Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: 24.5 x 17.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/16 in. )
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000
  • Object Number: 2000.208.1
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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