19th century

Gaston de Latouche 1854-1913 Frankrijk

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Portrait of Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna of Russia 1865

In the early 1860s, Napoleon III commissioned photographer Charles Marville to document the city's transformation from medieval architectural hodgepodge to modern metropolis. The results of that project, known as the Old Paris album, are now on display at the National Gallery of Art.

Fancy gentleman

Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.

That's what Paris looked like from between the 1850s and the late 1860s. Vue Prise du Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, 1851 Eglise Métropoli...

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Olivia B. asks: Why do women always seem to be fainting in classic books? Dropping like flies (or at least as far as many stories indicate), it seems as if well-bred ladies in the 1800s struggled to maintain consciousness when faced with even the slightest emotional or physical shock. Over the years there have been several theories as to why [...]