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Sabatier-Blot, Jean Baptiste
French (1801-1881)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Portrait of a young girl (Sabatier's daughter ?)

1852
daguerreotype
6.3 cm. (diameter), 1/6 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 22931
76:0168:0022

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 229.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 44.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
"Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//

INSCRIPTION: [translation] "Pretty frame of pulp of powdered oyster (?) pressed." "Lighting at 45 (degrees), precursor of later lighting" "1852"

NOTES: Cataloged by J. Buerger. Attribution by Jan Buerger.

SUBJECT: portrait, female

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