R. Darcourt (XX), active 1850s-1880s

FRENCH QUARTER PLATE HAND-COLOURED DAGUERREOTYPE, c.1860. A three-quarter profile seated portrait, showing a young male in dress uniform holding a book (possibly a young military cadet), with hand-painted gilt accent to the sitter's hat, epaulettes, buttons, large decorative belt buckle and to the book binding, and red accents that complement the sitter's dress uniform. Housed in a typical European oval ebonised wood frame, with bevelled mount, visible image aperture size: 85 x 70mm, photographer's label verso reads Darcourt , Artiste Professeure, rue de paris, 132, a Belleville, Paris Imp. Carre et e imp. gristine - impress rue de paris 455 Belleville, with period backing paper and wall hook.