Portrait of the Russian Empress by E. Desmaisons.
 Albumen print, business card format
 Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia, born Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1824-1880).
 Pierre Émile Desmaisons, also known as Émilien Desmaisons (1812-1880) was a French lithographer and photographer.
 A lithographic draftsman, he succeeded to the head of his father's publishing house located in Paris at 5 rue des Grands Augustins.