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DAGUERREOTYPIST UNKNOWN
Lot 328

DAGUERREOTYPIST UNKNOWN

Portrait of an older woman, Bute Chaumont, 1839

Closed7 October 2010

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USD 3,500

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DAGUERREOTYPIST UNKNOWN
Portrait of an older woman, Bute Chaumont, 1839
half-plate daguerreotype
annotated 'premier essai de photographie 'à la Daguerreotypie 1839 au Bute [sic] Chaumont' in ink (on the card mat)
5½ x 4¼in. (14 x 10.8cm.)

The Estate of Alphonse Poitevin;
With Alain Paviot, Paris

Specialist note

An extremely early, extraordinarily rare, French daguerreotype.