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View from the Château de Saint-Cloud dated Aug 1855

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Aug 1855

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A watercolour showing a view from a balcony at the Château de Saint-Cloud. After RCIN 980029.cw. Gates are shown between tall buildings. A group of Guardsmen are shown in the foreground to the left, with a further lone guard shown to the right. Trees are shown behind the gates, with a crowd of people below. Inscribed lower right: Aug: 1855. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their eldest two children stayed in the Château de Saint-Cloud as guests of Napoleon III from 18-27 August 1855. Queen Victoria describes in her journal entry of 19 August 1855 how she "sketched & rested, though but little, as there is always so much going on."
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil, watercolour', 'pencil, watercolour'

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Parc de Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine department, France

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France

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Château de Saint-Cloud was destroyed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. Today, only a few outbuildings and its park of 460 hectares remain, constituting the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud. Wikipedia

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