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Giacomo Caneva, attributed to

Sold for £2,880 at Sotheby's on May 10, 2001.

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Giacomo Caneva, attributed to study of a young girl and a sleeping baby, early 1850s Albumen Print, mounted on paper, 123 by 193mm (maximum dimensions) Provenance: Galerie Octant, Paris, 1987. Literature: Compare with a similar low angle study of an extended female subject by Caneva in the Gilman collection: Maria Morris Hambourg, Pierre Apraxine, Malcolm Daniel, Jeff L. Rosenheim and Virginia Heckert, The Waking Dream - Photography's First Century - Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, cat. no. 80, p. 294, pl. 72, pp. 98-99.

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