FRANCE - PORTRAITS CARTES-DE-VISITE - ÉDOUARD MUFFAT DE SAIN - Lot 309

FRANCE - PORTRAITS CARTES-DE-VISITE - ÉDOUARD MUFFAT DE SAINT-AMOUR, MARQUIS DE CHANAZ 1816-1899 - EUGÈNE DISDÉRI 1819-1889 Album featuring portraits of artistic, political and aristocratic personalities of the Second Empire, mostly by Disdéri, ca.1855-1870. Photographs. Album comprising 52 albumin prints with ink captions under the image, including 1 with a dry stamp of the Marquis De Chanaz on the image. Cover enhanced with a gilt flower frieze on the boards, spine ribbed and enhanced in gilt. Images: approx. 8.5 x 5.5 cm; album: 15.7 x 11.7 cm Giuseppe Verdi, Alphonse Karr, Horace Vernet, Rossini, Lord Palmerston, Cowley, Vittorio Emanuele II, Royal Prince of Piedmont, Napoleon III seated holding his moustache and with Eugenie and their daughter, Prince Jerome Napoleon young then old, Adelaïde Ristori, Princesses Clothilde and Mathilde, the Prince Imperial on a wooden horse, Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in outfits, the Grand Duchess and Grand Duke Constantin of Russia, Grand Duke Nicolas of Russia as a child with hat and scarf, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Duke and Duchess of Genoa, Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Countess and Count Giuseppe Primoli, Marshals Mac-Mahon, Canrobert, Magnan, Niel, General Fleury, Count and Countess Walewski, Count and Countess de Morny, Marquis Napoléon Pepoli, Duke of Montebello, Félix Larrey, Count de Persigny, Adolphe Thiers, Émile Girardin, Duke and Duchess of Alba, Princess Anna and Caroline Murat, Eugénie Doche.