Daguerreotype Portrait Young Elegant Lady Circa 1850

Daguerreotype Portrait of an elegant young woman in crinoline and lace In its period Napoleon III style frame (frame format: 20x22 cm) Oval plaque under glass. Tortoiseshell mat with oval gold trim. Circa 1850 The daguerreotype is the first photographic process developed by Nicéphore Niépce then Louis Daguerre and offered to the whole world (except in the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive hence this characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century they were also poetically called “the mirrors that remember”. Given the cost and technical difficulties, it will only be used for around ten years in France and will be replaced by other processes. However, there are late daguerreotypes, particularly American or Anglo-Saxon.
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