Opening: $45 Hammer Price: $45 SOLD Skylight Gallery 21 November 2005

CDV-format albumen print of a Peruvian woman by E. Maunoury, Lima, Peru, ca. 1865. Identified on reverse of card with a fancy "Nadar" logo as "Corresponsal de la Casa Nadar, Paris, and Courret Hermanos, Lima, Peru, Succesores de Maunoury, Corresponsal de la Casa Nadar de Paris." Sitter identified in ink as "Sa. Manuela Vigil".   ( Inventory# ia767.09 )

A beautiful mint-condition carte-de-visite showing a Peruvian woman posed next to a fancy, CDV-displaying planter. The CDVs in the display stand are visible and seem to include a veiled Peruvian woman. Interesting connection of the studio to Nadar, Paris.

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