Studio Mayer et Pierson

Leopold Ernest Mayer and Pierre-Louis Pierson were two French photographers who had a portrait studio in Paris in the second half of the 19^th century. In 1860 it was visited by Napoleon III. Almost by chance, the studio entered the fashion history books when, in 1853-1857, it created an album with portraits of the Countess of Castiglione in all her countless outfits (today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). The studio closed at the beginning of the 20^th century.