Rare HALF PLATE Daguerreotype of a Painting! By New York Photographer Prudhomme smoking She has tinted cheeks

She has tinted cheeks

In his other hand he is holding a second knife - it's blurred as if he was swinging it during the shot

and edge wear to the mount

the horizontal one about midway down the right side and a light one across her hand

and related scenes including an Iowa City train station

Rare HALF PLATE Daguerreotype of a Painting! By New York Photographer Prudhomme smoking She has tinted cheeksVery nice half plate early 1850s daguerreotype of a painting of a little girl holding flowers. The way she is holding the flowers, pointing downward, very possibly means that this was a memorial painting of her. The mat is stamped J. F. E. Prudhomme (John Francis Eugene), 663 Broadway (New York City). Interestingly, he shared this address with the New York Academy of Design, the New York Athenaeum and the New York Gallery of Fine Arts.. this painting