Notre-dame de paris

Sotheby’s: Notre Dame de Paris by Vincent Chevalier, circa 1840

Sotheby’s will sell on November 8 in Paris one of the first daguerreotype views of Notre-Dame de Parismade in 1840 by Vincent Chevalier just one year after the public announcement by François Arago of the discovery of the photograph (estimate: €50,000-70,000). Preserved for more than twenty years in the same collection, this photograph was taken […]