An albumen CdV by Disdéri of actress Delphine Fix (1831 – 1864) looking in a mirror while doing her hair. Delphine-Eléonore Fix was a French actress. She entered the Comédie Française in 1849.
She is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre.

'Delphine Fix - Comédie française' and negative number (23336) at the back in a later hand (Maurice Levert). Albumen print in very good condition with excellent tonality. Interesting pose.

ca. 1860

Literature: Elizabeth Anne McCauley, A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph, 1985

Provenance: collection Maurice Levert.

The uncut sheet of this sitting is in the collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris.