Date : 1842
Matériaux et techniques : Daguerréotype
Description : Balzac is depicted in a sleeveless shirt and suspenders, his collar open, his right hand over his heart. This is the sole photograph that exists of Balzac, its negative housed at the Institute of France. Taken in 1842 by the request of Balzac for Madame Hanska.
Balzac had another sitting at the daguerreotypist May 15, 1842.