Daguerreotype enhanced with a seated girl, surrounded by a ribbon and in a period oval frame of blackened wood. Label of the photographer Millet, located at 6 rue de Montesquieu in Paris, on the back.
 Désiré Millet is the photographer-daguerreotypist for the Ministry of the Interior, Agriculture and Commerce, but also for artists and students and college students. He also gives courses and lessons for amateurs.
 The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."