Silhouette d'un Jeune Enfant
“Tuesday 14th of June, 1932 - Today we received the three paper silhouette profiles we commissioned from Monsieur Hardy the caricaturist, including a lovely one of our daughter"
This pretty silhouette cut delicately and with precision from thin black card, is by the silhouette caricaturist J. M. Hardy, who had a studio at 4 Passage du Couëdic, in Rennes. It is a profile of a young child, most likely a little girl, cut in 1932 when a family were travelling through the Ille et Vilaine in Brittany. Notice the girl's fashionable pageboy bob hairstyle of the era and her long eyelashes. This is just one of three family silhouettes commissioned of the artist that I own. The other two are of the child's mother and father.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 18th of July is "black" where for the theme, I am required to photograph something black, be it an object, animal or plant, but the image is not allowed to be a black and white one. I immediately thought of the family’s silhouette profile portraits commissioned from the artist J.M. Hardy in the Ille et Vilaine which are carefully preserved amidst a cache of old French postcards and trade cards. To emphasise the blackness of the silhouette I have photographed it against a bright background of gilded (rather appropriately) French chocolate cards of young children from the 1870s and 1880s. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.
Silhouette d'un Jeune Enfant
“Tuesday 14th of June, 1932 - Today we received the three paper silhouette profiles we commissioned from Monsieur Hardy the caricaturist, including a lovely one of our daughter"
This pretty silhouette cut delicately and with precision from thin black card, is by the silhouette caricaturist J. M. Hardy, who had a studio at 4 Passage du Couëdic, in Rennes. It is a profile of a young child, most likely a little girl, cut in 1932 when a family were travelling through the Ille et Vilaine in Brittany. Notice the girl's fashionable pageboy bob hairstyle of the era and her long eyelashes. This is just one of three family silhouettes commissioned of the artist that I own. The other two are of the child's mother and father.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" the 18th of July is "black" where for the theme, I am required to photograph something black, be it an object, animal or plant, but the image is not allowed to be a black and white one. I immediately thought of the family’s silhouette profile portraits commissioned from the artist J.M. Hardy in the Ille et Vilaine which are carefully preserved amidst a cache of old French postcards and trade cards. To emphasise the blackness of the silhouette I have photographed it against a bright background of gilded (rather appropriately) French chocolate cards of young children from the 1870s and 1880s. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile.