The first daguerreotype portrait done with - the ancestor of the camera - estimated to cost between € 600,000 and € 800,000, will be auctioned by Pierre Bergé & Associés, on March 19, informs lefigaro.fr.
The portrait is part of a collection comprising 1,500 other images and photos, made since 1837 until today, which will be on sale at the same auction house Drouot in Paris organized.
"The Holy Shroud of photography. The oldest true picture of a man resembling a small mirror milky tones that can be held in the hollow of his hand." These are the words of art collector and trader Marc Pagneux holder portrait. His words were published on November 2, 1998 in the newspaper Libération, with the first public appearances of French collector, in an article that reported this extraordinary discovery made in the Vanves flea market.
Marc Pagneux bought little portrait - with dimensions of 5.8 inches x 4.5 inches - in 1989. But it took almost ten years to discover and authenticate a statement that revolutionized the history of photography - a legend written by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, in pencil, on the back of the glass film that image: "M. Huet, 1837" ("Mr. Huet, 1837"). The official presentation of the process was achieved only after three years, in 1840.
This portrait will be the focus of the auction on March 19. The presentation has a real effect "bombs", especially in the US, where it is considered that the inventor of the first daguerreotype portrait was made with an American, not a European.
Catalogue of Pierre Bergé on sale contain letters by Daguerre, preserved and published in Russia after World War II in 1947. In a letter addressed to one of coinventatorii photography, Isidore Niépce, dated January 17, 1938, Daguerre states that made several portraits, "one of which is pretty good." It could even be the mysterious "Mr. Huet" says journalists from Le Figaro.
Source: mediafax
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