Louis Napoleon IV Prince Imperial CDV Photo Cabinet Card Royalty French Royal FR For Sale

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Louis Napoleon IV Prince Imperial CDV Photo Cabinet Card Royalty French Royal FR:
$299.95

LOT-P189. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1874 French royal cabinet card / CDV / carte de visite original photograph of Prince Imperial, Louis Napoleon IV. Royal French cabinet card is original. Condition is fine. Photograph is original. Autograph of Napoleon is facsimile. Photograph type is sepia. Carte de visite measures approximately 104mm x 65mm. Museum quality. Extremely scarce. Authentic and correct.

Original photograph by the Stereoscopic Company (Louis Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a reconnoitering party at Ulundi, Zululand). 1874 - showing the Prince half length in profile wearing evening jacket.

Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte; 16 March 1856 – 1 June 1879), also known as Louis-Napoléon, was the only child of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and Empress Eugénie. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he moved to England with his family. On his father's death in January 1873, he was proclaimed by the Bonapartist faction as Napoleon IV.