L'Aiglón – Vintage Print
![L'Aiglón, [between 1850 and 1880] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/ab154fb5dce1-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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L'Aiglón
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The sitter here is not a living figure but the subject of a nickname: "L'Aiglon," or "the eaglet," the name given to François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's son, who was called the Duke of Reichstadt in Vienna after his father's fall. This carte de visite, sold by the Paris studio of H. Tournier from Rue de Seine, was issued between 1850 and 1880 and appears in an album of portraits connected to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. The record suggests it may reproduce a painting rather than a live sitting, a common practice in that period, when studios copied fashionable images of famous people for a buying public eager for them. The young duke, who lived most of his short life under Habsburg watch and died of tuberculosis at 21, made a poignant subject for such portraits.
| Created / published | [between 1850 and 1880] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Cartes de visite 1850-1880.Albumen prints 1850-1880.Portrait photographs 1880-1880. |
| Notes | Title from item. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris, Déposé. Aiglon, or eaglet was a nickname given to Napoleon Bonaparte's son. Photograph of painting? |
| Subjects | Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph,--Herzog von Reichstadt,--1811-1832--Childhood & youth. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,309 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207088 |
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