The Empress and her Ladies

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1855 
[Musée National du Chateau de Compiègne]
The Empress Eugénie seated in the midst of her ladies-in-waiting (the Princesse d’Essling, her grande maitresse; the Duchesse de Bassano, her dame d’honneur; the Comtesse de Montebello; the Vicomtesse Aguado; the Marquise de Latour Maubourg…) 
Empress Eugenie in Exile by Agnes Carey