$1,000
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Paris: November 6, 1826. 8vo. 1/2p. autograph letter on Daguerre's Maison du Diorama letterhead, signed "Daguerre" with integral address leaf; light to moderate creasing along folds. Framed with modern portrait of Daguerre. To Monsieur De Pixerécourt, [translated from the French]: “Mr. Pixérécourt will infinitely oblige me if he would leave two boxes for me today.”.
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (1787-1851), who developed the first practical photograph (1839) was also the co-inventor of the diorama, a precursor of both the photograph and the cinema, which was first exhibited in Paris in July the of 1822.
Pixérécourt, Rene-Charles Guilbert de (1773-1844), French theatre director & playwright, was director of the Theatre royal l’Opera-Comique from 1824-1827.