'HM the Empress Eugénie', c1879.Artist: Faustin

'HM the Empress Eugénie', c1879.Artist: Faustin

1-624-795 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'HM the Empress Eugénie', c1879. Caricature portrait of Empress Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920), wife of Napoleon III of France. She is in mourning next to a bust of her son who died in 1879: A heart as full of sorrow as the sea of sands, a quote from William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. With the death of Eugénie's only child, Napoleon IV, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), died also the last dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the French throne.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Faustin, attributed to: French: Artist, draughtsman, caricaturist, and lithographer
Subject
  1. Empress Eugenie de Montijo: Spanish: Empress of France
  2. Louis Napoleon: French: Soldier
People Related
  1. William Shakespeare: British, English: Author, playwright, poet
  2. Napoleon Bonaparte III: French: Emperor of France, president

Medium
  1. Chromolithograph

Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Portrait

Category Hierarchy

People Royalty

Lifestyle & Leisure Fashion & Dress

Artistic Representations Portraits

Artistic Representations Caricatures

Society & Culture Death & Burial


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2961x5915
File Size : 51,312kb


Aliases

  1. 0580005779
  1. 1-624-795
  1. 1624795

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