Mauban - 8th Dragoon Regiment 1815 – More correctly Trumpeter Mauban 13th Dragoons (1st Empire) and 8th Dragoons (1st and 2nd Restorations)

3rd in collection of 15 original albumen sepia print photographs, ca. 1863; full-length portrait of dragoon wearing the Médaille de Sainte Hélène, seated in wooden chair, holding sword, facing left, indoors. 3rd in collection of 15 original albumen sepia print photographs, ca. 1863; full-length portrait of dragoon wearing the Médaille de Sainte Hélène, seated in wooden chair, holding sword, facing left, indoors. Photographed by Erwin Hanfstaengl (also known as Erwin frères, a German photographer), around 1863, who began working in Paris in 1861, at 4, Rue Frochet, 4, en face la Rue Breda. This is based on the similar photographic portraits of Dorigny and Bonneville on which the photographer's name appears, and the similarity in the backgrounds of several carte de visites. (information courtesy of Wouter Lambrechts, Antwerp, Belgium)