Colorful Lady
SOLD November 2003 |
Quarter plate French daguerreotype of a lovely woman, ca. 1855. With extensive hand-tinting applied in reds, flesh tones, and gilt, as well as blue and yellow. Housed in original passe-partout mount and a period frame.
The fragmentary photographer's label on reverse may be that of Mlle. Verdier, a female daguerreotypist operating in Bordeaux.
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