Lot 17
  • 17

Louis-Auguste Bisson

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Louis-Auguste Bisson
  • 'Wildfire', c. 1844
  • photograph
Half-plate daguerreotype, mounted under original card. With blind stamp 'AB' and titled Wildfire in ink on the mount. Annotated Daguerréotypé par Bisson n°65 rue St-Germain l’Auxerrois à Paris in ink on a paper label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

Provenance

Rosa Bonheur, France
Private French collection

Literature

Quentin Bajac/ Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Le daguerréotype français. Un objet photographique, exc. cat. Paris, Musée d’Orsay, RMN, 2003, p. 280, pl. 195;
Les Frères Bisson photographes, de flèche en cime 1840 – 1870, exh. cat. Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Museum Folkwang, Paris/ Essen, 1999, ill. p. 58, pl. 27 (variant).

Condition

This half plate is in very good condition. With a light trace of oxidation at the upper edge at left in the sight area.
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