[Five cameo portraits with Empress Carlota in center, then clockwise from top: Emperor Maximilian, Miguel Miramon, Ramon Mendez, and Benito Juárez] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Five cameo portraits with Empress Carlota in center, then clockwise from top: Emperor Maximilian, Miguel Miramon, Ramon Mendez, and Benito Juárez], [between 1864 and 1880] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d1/d11f423acf15-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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Step back in time with [Five cameo portraits with Empress Carlota in center, then clockwise from top: Emperor Maximilian, Miguel Miramon, Ramon Mendez, and Benito Juárez], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Five cameo portraits with Empress Carlota in center, then clockwise from top: Emperor Maximilian, Miguel Miramon, Ramon Mendez, and Benito Juárez]
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Five small cameo portraits share this carte de visite, with Empress Carlota at the center and Emperor Maximilian, Miguel Miramón, Ramón Méndez, and Benito Juárez arranged clockwise from the top. The montage was made for an album of figures tied to Maximilian's reign in Mexico, when a French-backed monarchy faced armed resistance from Juárez's republican forces. Miramón, a conservative general who fought for the imperial cause, was executed alongside Maximilian in 1867, which gives the grouping a grim meaning for later viewers who knew how the reign ended.
| Created / published | [between 1864 and 1880] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Cartes de visite 1860-1880.Montages 1860-1880.Portrait photographs 1860-1880.Albumen prints 1860-1880. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 4, lower left. |
| Subjects | Carlota,--Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico,--1840-1927. Maximilian,--Emperor of Mexico,--1832-1867. Juárez, Benito,--1806-1872. Miramón, Miguel,--1831-1867. Mexico--History--European intervention, 1861-1867. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,300 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207122 |
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