General Mac Mahon Full Length By Mayer & Pierson

General de Mac Mahon, senator (1808-1893) by Mayer & Pierson albumen print mounted on cardboard Business Card format: 5.5 x 8.2 cm Patrice de Mac Mahon, Count of Mac Mahon, Duke of Magenta, born June 13, 1808 at the Château de Sully (Saône-et-Loire) near Autun and died October 17, 1893 at the Château de la Forêt, in Montcresson (Loiret), is a French statesman, Marshal of France and President of the French Republic from 1873 to 1879. Mayer (1817-1895) and Pierson (1822-1913) are the founders of the company "Mayer frères et Pierson" whose object is the production and sale of any reproduction using the daguerreotype, photography or any other method that would be subsequently discovered. "Installed 3 boulevard des Capucines in Paris, the workshop became the official photographic studio of the emperor in 1856. The partners became photographers of the emperor in July 1862. They will produce many portraits of the family of Napoleon but also of the aristocracy and Parisian celebrities like Sarah Bernhardt. Their reputation crosses borders and becomes European.
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