[DAGUERREOTYPE - NAKED]. Two naked young women lying and embracing on a sofa, eyes closed, circa 1848. Rare daguerreotype _ plate, made by an unidentified photographer. Size of the image (at sight) 10.5 x 15 cm. Vintage glass matting and gilded fillets. 20th century mounting with conservation of the period blue paper on the back. Blackened wood frame with rounded corners. Literature : the French daguerreotype. A photographic object. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. Collective, direction: Quentin Bajac, Dominique de Font-Réaulx. RMN, 2003. Cat. 233, pages 306 and 307: An anonymous daguerreotype, Two young women embracing around 1848 from the P. Getty collection, presents many similarities; the models seem the same, the sofa is covered with the same striped fabric, the delicacy of the shooting is of the same artistic sensibility. The format is very similar: 12.2 x 16.3 cm. It is probably a work by the same photographer. (Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, inv. 84XT.172.6).
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