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Jean-Baptist Frénet

Mother with Two Children

c. 1855
salted paper print from a collodion negative

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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

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