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Daguerreotypes
Portrait of a Scholar

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Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1801-1881). Portrait of a scholar. 1840s. Quarter-plate daguerreotype in fabric-lined frame. 17 x 13 cm. Signed "Sabatier, Palais Royal 137" in ink on lower margin.

Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot was a French miniaturist who transitioned to photography in 1842, opening a prominent daguerreotype studio in Paris’s Palais-Royal. One of his most significant contributions is his 1844 portrait of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, among the few known photographs of the inventor. An active member of the photographic community, he joined the Société héliographique in 1851 and was a founding member of the Société française de photographie (1854). His works are preserved in institutions such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. – Some signs of oxidation along edges of plate, otherwise in very good condition.