![Unknown, [Portrait of a Seated Child with hidden mother]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7dc9c752-4707-4ed1-b1f0-eb532c602ea5/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of a Seated Child with hidden mother]
1865–1870
- Medium
- Tintype
- Dimensions
- 8.9 × 6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-526806
A Black child of about a year in age sits propped against a white backdrop of fabric that hides a seated woman, likely the child's mother. The seated woman's skirts are visible below the child who rests on her lap. The child is wearing a white dress and small leather soled shoes. Hidden mother posed portraits such as this were relatively common during the period of early photography as exposure times could be long and the mother, or another woman, were able to hold the child keeping them calm and still without appearing in the photograph themselves.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1865–1870 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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