Burg – Grenadier 23rd Regiment Inr(?) Garde 1815 (more correctly Fourrier of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard - Grenadiers de la Garde Imperiale)

9th in collection of 15 original albumen sepia print photographs; full-length portrait of white-bearded soldier Guards uniform, standing at attention wearing the Médaille de Sainte Hélène, facing slightly right, indoors. 9th in collection of 15 original albumen sepia print photographs; full-length portrait of white-bearded soldier Guards uniform, standing at attention wearing the Médaille de Sainte Hélène, facing slightly right, 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)