Description
- Abstract:
- 1st in collection of 15 original albumen sepia print photographs; full-length portrait of grenadier guard wearing the Médaille de Sainte Hélène, in shako, wearing sword, looking left, standing on rug, indoors.
- Notes:
- Photographed by Erwin Hanfstaengl (also known as Erwin frères, a German photographer), around 1863, who began working in Paris in 1861, at 4, Rue Frochet, 4, en face la Rue Breda. This is based on the similar photographic portraits of Dorigny and Bonneville on which the photographer's name appears, and the similarity in the backgrounds of several carte de visites. (information courtesy of Wouter Lambrechts, Antwerp, Belgium)
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"Taria - Sergeant, Grenadier de la Garde Imperiale 1809 – 1815 (Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard)"
(1863).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:235794/
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