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Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025

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  2025-09-06 13:00:00 2025-09-06 13:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025 https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/fall-photographic-history-auction-2025-20189
We are pleased to announce our next auction, featuring approximately 200 individual lots drawn from a diverse and compelling range of 19th- and early 20th-century photography. This sale focuses on vernacular images, photographs created not as formal studio portraits or elite commissions, but as direct, unscripted records of lived experience. These are objects made by and for everyday people, preserving moments of intimacy, labor, travel, performance, identity, and loss.
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Lot 107

Charming Stereo Nude Daguerreotype by Richbourg

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

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An elegant and sensitively composed stereo daguerreotype of a seated nude woman, presented in a richly detailed parlor setting with neoclassical elements. The subject poses demurely on a floral-upholstered chair, her form turned modestly away from the camera yet with a direct, composed gaze. Fine tonal gradation and exceptional clarity characterize this intimate portrait, with warm highlights contrasting against the dark drapery backdrop.

The verso retains the original paper backing label of the renowned Photographie Richebourg, located at 29 Quai de l’Horloge, Paris, a studio known for both traditional portraiture and refined artistic studies. Stereo daguerreotypes of this caliber, especially with clear Parisian provenance, are exceedingly scarce and highly sought after by collectors of early erotic and artistic photography.

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