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The image shows an overhead view of a busy urban square with people and horse-drawn carriages. In the middle, there is a grand equestrian statue on a pedestal surrounded by scaffolding and fountains. The background features a row of multi-story buildings and hills in the distance. The image has a sepia tone, soft lighting, and a grainy texture, evoking a vintage aesthetic.
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The image shows an overhead view of a busy urban square with people and horse-drawn carriages. In the middle, there is a grand equestrian statue on a pedestal surrounded by scaffolding and fountains. The background features a row of multi-story buildings and hills in the distance. The image has a sepia tone, soft lighting, and a grainy texture, evoking a vintage aesthetic.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Assembly of Troops for Napoleon III, Place Bellecour de Lyon

Pierre-Ambrose Richebourg

Date
1860
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 23 × 30.2 cm (9 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.) mount: 36.8 × 47.8 cm (14 1/2 × 18 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2019.20.3
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • albumen silver print
  • France
  • military
  • Napoleon
Provenance

(Serge Kakou, Paris); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2013; NGA purchase, 2018.

Inscription

by unknown hand, below image center in black inl: Defile des troupes devant S.M. L'Empereur, Place Bellecour a Lyon.; on verso, by unknown hand in upper left corner in graphite: Ambroise Richebourg / Voyage de Napoleon III a Lyon / le 25 Aout 1860; left edge: 5; lower left: 20986.

NGA object ID 212098. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.