{"id":952,"date":"2025-03-19T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T21:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=952"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:28:59","slug":"lot-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=952","title":{"rendered":"Lot 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lot 13<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">An extremely rare Russian daguerreotype by Iosif Ivanovich Peishes, (\u0418\u043e\u0441\u0438\u0444 \u0418\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041f\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0435\u0441), a French artist who worked in Moscow as a daguerreotypist and photographer. A history of early Moscow photography places his \u201cFrench establishment\u201d at the corner of Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Stoleshnikov Lane, in Zasetsky\u2019s house.\u00a0Peishes created rare, historically significant photographic portraits of Russian aristocrats and elites during the 1850s. He came to Moscow in 1842 to teach French, however after failing in this endeavor, he turned to painting miniatures on ivory and then to the daguerreotype to photograph the aristocracy in a variety of cities, including Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, and finally Moscow. This sixth-plate daguerreotype features a stately woman in an artistic and thought-provoking pose with her finger resting on her cheek. She wears a lovely black gown with fabulous floral white lace highlights. Her hair is styled in divine sausage girls that perfectly frames her face. The image is presented in a gold gilded black paper passe-partout with a faux marbled back and originally had a built-in stand that is missing. On the back of the image, a studio label is seen at the top and further down there is an inscription in French from the sitter that reads: \u201c<em>To my beloved mother, from her devoted daughter, Madame Cougnard, Moscow, March 18, 1855.<\/em><strong>\u201d<\/strong> We opened the image to clean the inside of the glass and we have resealed it with archival tape. The image has very nice contrast and tonal qualities and some lighter plate tarnish which could be professionally removed if so desired. We wanted to leave it in its original state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Opening bid $900<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13.jpg 825w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13-767x893.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a-767x1011.jpg 767w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lot13a.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot 13 An extremely rare Russian daguerreotype by Iosif Ivanovich Peishes, (\u0418\u043e\u0441\u0438\u0444 \u0418\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041f\u0435\u0439\u0448\u0435\u0441), a French artist who worked in Moscow as a daguerreotypist and photographer. A history of early Moscow photography places his \u201cFrench establishment\u201d at the corner of Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Stoleshnikov Lane, in Zasetsky\u2019s house.\u00a0Peishes created rare, historically significant photographic portraits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/952\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}