About two years before Daguerre made his famous 1838 daguerreotype of the "Boulevard du Temple", where a human being can be seen, the inventor photographed other places in Paris to experiment the new technique in "plein air". In the very first example of his own attempts, he made an image of the "Pont Neuf" and the equestrian statue of Henry IV. Since early images were mirrored, at the left side (actually the right side) of the statue one can clearly see a worker, or perhaps two, lying in the statue's shadow.