" Groups of guests are bowing and curtseying to Queen Victoria and Napoleon III who are entering on the right. "
From an album of watercolours "Presented to Queen Victoria by the City of Paris in January or February 1856, as part of an album commemorating the ball held at the Hôtel de Ville in her honour on 23 August 1855 "
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/920086/entrance-to-the-galerie-des-glaces-at-the-hocirctel-de-ville-23-august-1855
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