FRANCE - IMPERIAL FAMILY - ALBUM CARTES DE VISITE - EUGÈNE D - Lot 312

FRANCE - IMPERIAL FAMILY - ALBUM CARTES DE VISITE - EUGÈNE DISDÉRI 1819-1889 - NADAR (Félix Tournachon, dit) 1820-1910 - PIERRE PETIT 1832-1909 - MAYER & PIERSON - ALARY & GEISER - ROBERT SEVERIN 1839-1883 - ÉTIENNE CARJAT 1828-1906 - KEN - SERGEI LVOVICH LEVITSKY 1819-1898 - ROBERT JEFFERSON BINGHAM 1824-1870 Album featuring carte-de-visite portraits of Napoleon III, Eugenie, the imperial family and celebrities, ca.1860-1880. Photographs. Album containing approximately 184 carte-de-visite format albumen prints, most by Disdéri, some with pencil captions under the image or on the spine. Red neo-gothic cover with gilt metal clasps. Portraits: The "Four Napoleons" (Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial in front of a painting of Napoleon I and the King of Rome) and their mothers, (Hortense, Letitia, Eugénie, Marie-Louise); the Prince Imperial as a child on a wooden horse and standing in military garb, Jérôme Bonaparte, Empress Eugénie with the Prince Imperial, Princesses Anna and Murat, Scylla and Caroline, Princes Joachim, Achille and Louis Murat as children, Eugène Rouher, Guillaume des Pays-Bas, Prince d'Orange, Adolphe Billaut, Marquis Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat, comtes de Morny et Walewski, Pierre Jules Baroche, Patrice de MacMahon, Jean-François Mocquart, maréchaux Pélissier, Canrobert, Magnan et Randon, Gustave Olivier Lannes, Vicomte de la Guéronnière, Charlotte Bonaparte, Ernest de Royer, María Manuela Kirkpatrick, duc et duchesse d'Albe et de Morny, Prince Achille Murat on horseback; Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte dreaming of the coronation, full-length, William III King of Holland; William I King of Prussia, Franz Joseph I Emperor of Austria, King Victor Emmanuel II, Count Van Nieuwerkerke, Baroness Reille, Admiral Hamelin and his wife, M. and Mme. and Mme Durand-Saint-Amand, Brochant de Villiers, Louis de Castelvecchio, Monseigneur Vallerga, Marlot, de Soissons, de Nevers, abbés and curés, Pierre Magne and family, Duchess Hamilton, Prince and Princess of Wales (Edward VII), Comte de Cavour, François Guizot, Lord Palmerston, Jules Favre, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Eugène Scribe, Octave Feuillet, Hélène Bertaux, photomontages of Opéra-Comique actresses and actors, women "Sommités", the legislature, ministers, Disdéri mosaic, Charlotte of Belgium : Empress of Mexico, Jacques Babinet, Imam Schamil, Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gounod, Caroline Miolan-Carvahlo (dedicated print), Gilbert Duprez, Félicien David, Enrico Tamberlick, caricatures of Alexandre Dumas fils by Carjat, Achille Montaubry, various other portraits and a few paintings. Images: approx. 8.5 x 5.2 cm; album: 31.5 x 25.5 cm