Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867)

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL, c.early 1840s, monochromatic ninth plate daguerreotype, a very striking image, taken on the same backdrop as Claudet's famous study of Fox Talbot (1844), in a plain brass mount, with wharton style unmarked red morocco case, with single lower hinge, plate has been cleaned and resealed