Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Sculpture

Jean-Pierre Dantan

Maker
French, 1800–1869

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

1833
Glazed plaster
Overall: 6 11/16 × 3 9/16 × 3 3/8 in. (17 × 9 × 8.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
2003.0022.0001
Inscriptions Engraved in plaster, back of base, BC: Dantan J. \ 1833.
Cast in plaster, front of sculpture, puzzle, BC: DI [crossed bones= (Fr.) os] [rat] [mast= (Fr.) mat] [therefore: Diorama]
Inscribed in pencil, base bottom, TC: 6-1

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