Smiling Child, 1842
1/4 plate daguerreotype in its original mount, dry stamp of the author on the mount with entwined initials "L. A. B." and indications "Portrait rectified", handwritten annotation on the label "daguerreotype by Bisson rue Saint Germain L'Auxerrois n°65 (à Paris)" on the back
9 x 6,3 cm (oval) - 15 x 12,5 cm (under glass)
Georges Potonniée in his book "Histoire de la Découverte de la Photographie" of 1925 underlines: "the main preoccupation of the operators was always to shorten the pause time (...) the prints representing people or things in movement - that we call instantaneous - were always rare because they were presented to the Academy of Sciences as curiosities. I have cited a few examples concerning the portrait. We can add, in 1842, some daguerreotypes of Bisson representing a smiling child (...) "
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