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France, Photographie, c.1870, a bronze electrotype, unsigned, cupid focusing camera on seated female figure, exergue named (Emile Leÿsalle, Sculp), rev. engraved (Concours de l’Amateur Photographe, 1er prix décerné à M.L. Bertrand, Fevrier 1892), 60mm. Very fine (£50-70)

Pierre-Emile Leÿsalle (b.1847) was a Parisian sculptor active from the mid-1870s to the mid-1890s. It is uncertain whether this electrotype is by him, or whether the artist copied Leÿsalle’s work