A Breton peasant girl, perhaps taking a break from foraging, holds a basket while having her portrait taken on a leaf-strewn path. 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