La famille Impériale / Image d’Épinal, c. 1860s.

Hand-coloured woodcut on laid paper, 422 x 294 mm; black ink stamp “5307” to reverse, centrefold. Top center: “LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE”; Bottom right: “(Tire sur le bois original de maison Pellerin)”. Image: Napoléon III, Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial Louis-Napoléon as a child surrounded with four lettered medallions: “PRINCE GÉROME”, “PRINCESSE MATHILDE”, “PRINCESSE CLOTILDE”, and “PRINCE NAPOLÉON”; ribbons lettered: “MAGENTA”, SOLFERINO”, “ALMA”, and “INKERMANN” around heraldic spears; coat of arms with imperial monogram between Princesse Clotilde and Prince Napoléon.

Publisher/printer: Jean Charles Pellerin (French, 1756 – 1836).

Battle of Magenta : 4 June 1859, against the Austrians.

Battle of Solferino : 24 June 1859, against the Austrians.

Battle of the Alma : 20 September 1854 (Crimean War)

Battle of Inkerman : 5 November 1854 (Crimean War)

Characters:

Napoleon III [Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte] (French, 1808 – 1873)

Eugénie de Montijo [L’impératrice Eugénie] (Spanish-French, 1826 – 1920)

Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte] (French, 1856 – 1879)

Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte [Prince Jérôme] (French, 1822 – 1891)

Mathilde Bonaparte [Princess Mathilde] (French, 1820 – 1904)

Marie-Clotilde de Savoie [Princesse Clotilde] (French, 1843 – 1911)