Unidentified photographer
1846, 7 February (before)
M. Claudet & Mension [sic] with a Palette

Varnished salted paper print, from a calotype negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2013.159.53; Schaaf 3774
 
Larry Schaaf, 28 April 2017, "Take a Mansion, a Painting Palette, and Add a Bottle of Wine", William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné blog
foxtalbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2017/04/28/take-a-mansion-a-painting-palette-and-add-a-bottle-of-wine/
 
On the far right André Léon Larue Mansion (1785-1870) with Antoine Claudet to the left of him.
 
Since this mounted print has a “Patent Talbotype or Sun Pictures label on the verso it was almost certainly sold commercially by Nicolaas Henneman, either at Reading or in London.
 
LL/75836