By 1860, he was in Peru, where in Lima, he married Amelia Ellen Horn, a German Protestant, four months following the birth of their first son, Leopold.

During his time in Peru, he owned a number of properties in Callao, however, they were destroyed in a severe earthquake that likely occurred in 1868.

[2] At an exhibition of the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Reutlinger was awarded a silver medal.

From 1882 to 1889, he donated to the Bibliothèque nationale de France several albums of photographs of topless dancers.

Due to internal familial disputes, Leopold also worked for various other photography studios during his time collaborating with his father.

On a visiting card for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that is currently owned by the New York Public Library, three agencies are listed: the German: New Photographic Society in Berlin-Steglitz; the French Société Industrielle de Photographie in Rueil (Rueil-Malmaison near Paris), and the British Rotary Photographic Company in London.