"Les Deux Petits Savoyards"

Photograph of a full length group portrait of three children dressed for a performance of 'Les Deux Petits Savoyards', given on 16 January 1854. From left to right: Albert Van de Weyer is 'Un Garde', Victoria Van de Weyer is Jacqueline and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales is le Bailli, with a red nose.

This was Roger Fenton's first commission for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; the photograph was taken on 23 January 1854, a week after the actual performance. Les Deux Petits Savoyards, an one-act 'opera-comique' was composed by Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac and was first performed in 1789.