Albumen cabinet photograph depicting William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in right-facing profile, taken in Paris by the prominent photographer Eugène Pirou at 23, Rue Royale. Cody is shown wearing a broad-brimmed hat, long hair worn loose at the back, and a fringed jacket over an open shirt, a look closely associated with his public persona during his European appearances in the late 1880s. The photograph is almost certainly connected to Cody’s time in Paris surrounding the Exposition Universelle of 1889, when Pirou photographed numerous international celebrities.

The mount bears Pirou’s elaborate printed back advertising his Paris studio, including references to medals and the 1889 exposition, firmly dating the card to the late 19th century. At the lower margin of the mount is an ink inscription reading “W. F. Cody / Buffalo Bill,” overlapping the studio imprint. The inscriptions are best regarded as an attribution rather than a verified autograph; the handwriting, placement, and context do not allow either of the signatures to be confidently certified as an authentic hand-signed example by Cody himself.

A visually compelling and historically resonant Paris-period portrait of Buffalo Bill, offered with the signature described accurately as attributed rather than authenticated.