[Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie]
![[Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie] by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri|Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte|Empress Eugénie de Montijo](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/napoleon-iii-and-empress-eugenie-288741.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9.5 x 6 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1967
Accession Number
67.580.4.4
Tags
PortraitsNapoleon IIIWomen
About the Artist
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri|Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte|Empress Eugénie de Montijo · 1819–1889
**André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri** (1819–1889) was a pioneering French photographer whose innovations transformed portraiture into a mass medium during the Second Empire. Born on March 28, 1819, in Paris, Disdéri pursued diverse careers in commerce, acting, and politics early on, while studying art amid personal hardships following his father's death, which compelled him to support his mother, sibli...