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Louis Auguste Bisson
Horse "Surprise"
1842
Daguerreotype
12.5 x 15 cm
Artcurial
courtesy of Artcurial (Sale 1170, Lot 9)
LL/19501
Inscription on reverse "Daguerréotypé par Bisson, n¦ 65 rue St Germain l'auxerrois a Paris"
Bibliography Le daguerréotype franþais. Un objet photographique, Musée d'Orsay, RMN, Paris, 2003, p. 280, pl. 195
This was taken as an anumal study for the animal painter Rosa Bonheur who was a neighbous and friend of the photographer.
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