[Photo Collage: Two People Holding Girl in Water]
ca. 1875
![[Photo Collage: Two People Holding Girl in Water] by Juan Pedro Chabalgoity](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/photo-collage-two-people-holding-girl-in-water-764787.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver prints, lithographs
Dimensions
Mount: 10.5 x 6.3 cm
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, 2017
Accession Number
2017.68.38
Art Historical Context
In this intimate photo collage titled *Two People Holding Girl in Water Uruguayan photographer Juan Pedro Chabalgo captures a tender family moment around 1875. The small-scale work (mount: 10.5 x 6.3 cm) depicts two adults playfully supporting a young girl in shallow water, evoking joy and everyday domesticity. Chabalgoity, active in Montevideo during photography's early commercial boom, specialized in portraits and scenes that preserved personal memories for middle-class families. Crafted from albumen silver prints—then the gold standard for sharp, richly toned images—combined with lithograp...
About the Artist
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity · 1848–1909
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (1848–1909) stands as one of the pioneering figures of Uruguayan academic painting, a generation that sought to establish a national artistic tradition while remaining deeply connected to European models. Born in Uruguay, he pursued formal training abroad, traveling to Europe to refine his craft in the manner of the academies then dominant on the continent. His formation pla...