Mother with Two Children — Jean-Baptist Frénet (French, 1814–1889) | DiscoverArt

Jean-Baptist Frénet

Mother with Two Children

c. 1855

salted paper print from a collodion negative

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Frénet was one of the earliest photographers to take spontaneous, rather rigidly formal, portraits.

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