Keywords: Pierre-Louis Pierson, Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial - Getty Museum.jpg The Prince Imperial son of Napoleon III sits strapped securely into a seat on his horse's back a model subject for the camera An attendant at the left steadies the horse so that the little prince remains picture-perfect in the center of the backdrop erected for the photograph The horse stands upon a rug that serves as a formalizing element making the scene appear more regal The Emperor Napoleon III himself stands off to the right in perfect profile supervising the scene with his dog and forming a framing mirror-image of the horse and attendant on the other side <br> Pierre-Louis Pierson placed his camera far enough back from the Prince to capture the entire scene and all the players but this was not the version sold as a popular carte-de-visite The carte-de-visite image was cropped so that only the Prince upon his horse was visible ~ 1859 Albumen print from a wet-collodion-on-glass negative Size cm 21 16 Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 48560 Verso inscribed in pencil at lower right edge Wagstaff's inventory number Pierson 1 credit line accession number 84 XM 705 1 PD-100 Photographs of Napoleon III Napoléon Eugène Prince Imperial Pierre-Louis Pierson 1859 portrait photographs Photographs in the Getty Museum |