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Louis Auguste Bisson
Horse "Surprise"
1842 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2007.49.1
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 animal study for the animal painter Rosa Bonheur who was a neighbous and friend of the photographer.
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