Pick of the Week: The self-portrait of an Orientalist photographer
THIS intriguing full-plate daguerreotype by the photographer Camille Dolard (1810-84) was the toast of the photographic section of Baron Ribeyre/Millon’s sale of the Gerard Lévy collection at Drouot on December 20.
The 6½ x 8½in (16.5 x 21cm) self-portrait of the photographer smoking from a hookah in an oriental i…