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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

1844
daguerreotype
9.1 x 6.9 cm., 1/4 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 22831 22139
76:0168:0043

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 429

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Reynaud, Francoise (et al). --Paris et le Daguerreotype.-- Paris: Paris-Musees, 1989. p. 202.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 41.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"XXVIIe Salon International D'Art Photographique de Paris 1932", France, Paris, Societe Francaise de Photographie et de Cinematograp October 2-20, 1932.//
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
"Paris et le Daguerreotype", France, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, October, 1989 - February, 1990.//
"Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink on mount) "Sabatier-Blot, palais-Royal, 137." verso-(in ink) "Daguerre. Ce Portrait a ete fait par, Sabatier-Blot, Son ami, en 1844" (various other ink notations in French; see cataloguing notes for inscription translation)

NOTES: Cataloged by J. Buerger, updated 5/89, DZ, updated 2/98, AHF. Daguerre (1787-1851), discovered the daguerreotype process. verso- in writing: "An enamelled original by Mathieu-Desroches also exists at the Societe Francaise de Photographie" "Daguerre. This portrait was done by Sabatier-Blot, His friend, in 1844" "Rare portrait of Daguerre in daguerreotype. Photographic collection of Gabriel Cromer" "Writing of my grandfather Jean Baptiste Sabatier Blot, (signature) Libert, born Laisné" "Original reproduced in heliogravure [only the head] by the 'Daguerre Committee' for the monument of Cormeilles-en-Parisis in 1883; probably the oldest portrait of Daguerre in daguerreotype, on a plate at first, thick and non-beveled;in any case his only dated portrait; Daguerre was 57 years old." "Acquired by the granddaughter of Sabatier-Blot, Madame Libert, daughter of Victor Laisné, photographer, married to the daughter of Sabatier-Blot, daughter of which I have two portraits of childhood taken in daguerreotype by her father."

SUBJECT: personage, photographer / Daguerre, Louis J.M.