Maria Laisné and her maternal grandmother

Maria Laisné and her maternal grandmother

Photograph

Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot

Maker
French, 1801–1881

Maria Laisné and her maternal grandmother

March 4, 1843
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 11/16 in. (9.1 × 6.8 cm)
Mount: 5 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (13 × 10.3 cm)
Overall (1/2 plate): 5 1/2 × 4 7/16 × 11/16 in. (13.9 × 11.3 × 1.7 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1976.0168.0027
Inscriptions Printed in ink, on mat recto, BR: Sabatier-Blot, palais-Royal, 137.
Inscribed in ink, verso: Le 4 - Mars 1843, ageé de 3 ans et 1/2
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso: la fille de Sabatier-Blot et sa grand-mère maternelle. / donc née en sept. 39, et ainsi contemporaine de la divulgation du daguerréotype.
Hallmark: [incomplete] rosette.//
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