Lot 112
  • 112

Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot
  • Post Mortem Portrait, circa 1855
  • photograph
Full plate daguerreotype. On the reverse, label of the artist's studio "65 Palais National".

Provenance

Galerie Laurent Herschtritt, Paris
Acquired at the above in 1996

Condition

Original mount and frame in very good condition. Corners of the frame with light cracks. The plate as inspected through the mount is in very good condition. On a scale of ten, contrasts reach a great 9. Upper, left and right edges showing light oxidation marks. With light foxing overall. Each corner with unidentified dots that may have affect the plate surface.
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