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Prussian and French Rulers, Nobility and Military Portraits
Portraits of Prussian and French royalty, military and political figures

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographers: F. Brandt, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889), Heinrich Graf (1835-1906), Carl Günther (active 1865-1884), L. Haase & Co. (active 1856-1890s), F. Jamrath & Sohn (active from 1858), J. C. Welten, Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin (active 1862-1927), and others. Portraits of Prussian and French rulers, military and political figures. 1860s-1870s. 35 cartes-de-visite albumen prints. Most with studio imprints on the recto or verso of mount; several annotated in ink or pencil on the verso. Inserted into gilt-edged window album leaves, each inscribed in German in ink and pencil. Bound in a contemporary full-leather album with an ornamental brass clasp.

Compiled around the Franco-Prussian War, the album brings together members of the Prussian court and military command with leading figures of the Second Empire and early Third Republic. Sitters include Wilhelm I, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Friedrich Karl, Bismarck, Moltke, Roon, Steinmetz and Manteuffel, as well as Napoléon III, Mac-Mahon, Bazaine, Leboeuf, Trochu, Gambetta, Thiers and Jules Favre; Garibaldi is also represented. The manuscript captions preserve a contemporary German collector’s political and military portrait gallery. A few cartes reproduce lithographic portraits.