In the Bay Window

In the Bay Window

A woman sits with her daughter while conversing with another woman on a bay window seat. Bennett, 1861-1936, was active in the early 20th Century as an amateur and also did “at home portraiture” as a commercial photographer from her home in Baltimore, Maryland.

Like most of the Salon Club workers Jeanne E. Bennett is a newcomer. Her special realm is Brittany, and she apparently never tires of depicting little hooded girls at the ferry, fetching water at the brook, roaming through the fields, or busy with some domestic occupation in old-fashioned interiors. Her work is at times wonderfully vital, and always subtle and delicate. Each of her pictures has a meaning, and is handled with beautiful skill and rare artistic feeling. (1.)

  1. Sadakichi Hartmann, The Salon Club and the First American Photographic Salon at New York” , The American Amateur Photographer, No. 16 (July 1904), pp. 298
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In the Bay Window
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions16.5 x 21.2 cm tipped to mount | Lieferung 4 | Fourth Issue

Support Dimensions26.3 x 33.9 cm dark gray colored paper

Print Notes

Recto: Engraved: l.l.: JEANNE E. BENNET, BALTIMORE IN THE BAY WINDOW; within plate at l.r.: MR Co (atelier); signed with monogram by artist in plate at l.r.: JeB; on mount at l.r.: KP, for abbreviated name of journal.

Published

The Photo-American, November, 1905,  full-page halftone, In The Bay Window, Photographed by Jeanne E. Bennett. Courtesy of Curtis Bell. “This has lost a good bit of transparency and tone in the reproduction”, p. 337