Enhanced Daguerreotype Elegant Couple Circa 1850

Colorized daguerreotype of an elegant couple. The man is in a suit with a pocket square and the woman, with a headdress, is holding a box in her hands. In its period frame in light wood. On the back, we can read part of the label of the daguerreotypist Philippe Guillaume Houdet, 145 Rue St. Honoré, opposite the Messageries générales de France, present in collections and museums including the Rijkmuseum. - View image 7 x 9.5 cm - Frame 18.5 x 20.5 cm The daguerreotype is the first photographic process developed by Nicéphore Niépce then Louis Daguerre and offered to the whole world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence this characteristic mirror effect. They were also poetically called "mirrors that remember" in the 19th century. Given the cost and technical difficulties, it was only used for about ten years in France and was replaced by other processes. However, there are late daguerreotypes, particularly American or Anglo-Saxon. https://www.lavalisearlesienne.com/product-page/daguerr%C3%A9otype-rehauss%C3%A9-d-un-couple-de-qualit%C3%A9-circa-1850