Opening: $450 Hammer Price: $1,100 SOLD Skylight Gallery 17 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.   ( Inventory# ia309 )

The fragmentary photographer's label on reverse may be that of Mlle. Verdier, a female daguerreotypist operating in Bordeaux.

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