Lucien Napoléon Murat, Prince of Pontecorvo and third Prince Murat, was born in Milan in 1803, the third child of Joachim Murat. In 1831, he married Caroline Georgina Frazer, in Trenton (New Jersey), and died in Paris in 1878.
Another version, unsigned, is illustrated in Roberto Middione, La miniatura europea nei musei di Napoli, Naples, 1993, nr 13, and a third version, unsigned, unidentified and erroneously attributed, was sold in these rooms, 30 April 1975, lot 202.