daguerreotype

Enrique or Henri Lorichon, was a French miniaturist who had worked intermittently in Barcelona, at least since 1833.

Lorichon never stopped miniature painting, and the press of the time sometimes advertised as a miniaturist or as a lithographer and sometimes as the daguerreotype portrait. It is also common finding associated with some other photographer based in the city where it was. The year 1850 appears Lorichon announced at the Madrid press associated with a Mr. Martinez. This piece corresponds to the period of stay in the state capital.

The picture shows a woman and two girls, presumably mother and daughters. The surface of the daguerreotype is illuminated with natural pigments manually. On the right side surface of the plate is an inscription with the text "Lorichon y Mnez 1850".