This cute half frame (12x18cm) colorised daguerreotype lightly oxyde on sides hide something very interesting on its back.
Photographer was Louis DODERO (born 1824 in Genova Italy) who was active in Marseille and Lyon (France) in the 1850's
As mentioned on each top corners of the above document (glued on the back of the daguerreotype), DODERO had 2 specialties : specialist of colors (this daguerreotype has been subtly colorised) and portraiture after death and 'en ville' (at customer's home)
Main adress is Rue St Ferréol n°8 in Marseille (South of France) and a secondary adress is rue de la Préfectrure n°9 in Lyon an other French big city located 300km North from Marseille.
After it says : Portraitures on metal plates or paper, everyday and by all kind of weather
Then comes the 'AVIS' (Notice, that i will try to translate hereunder) :
Not being from those that exhibit portraitures bought in Paris or made by visiting artists (meaning not residents), Mister DODERO commits to deliver only picture as the one he use to exhibit and he guarantees both success and duration.
It is usefull to remember how distressing is to see a portraiture of an absent or dead person desapearing gradually, only because having entrusting its execution to some Artist as incapable as not conscientious, whom to (be able) to work have no other means than lies and charlatanism
Nota : the DODERO process has been registered to the Archivs of Science Academy of Paris in 1850
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