Painting of Chateau de Malmaison, signed Clark
Painting: 23" x 19.5"
Frame: 26.75" x 22.75"

Chateau de Malmaison
(Source: napoleon.org) The chateau de Malmaison, purchased by Empress Josephine de Beauharnais in 1799 was, together with the Tuileries, the French government's headquarters from 1800 to 1802. When Napoleon moved to Saint-Cloud, Josephine stayed in Malmaison and commissioned a wide range of improvements to the house. She settled in permanently after her divorce in 1809 and died there on May 29, 1814.

On returning from Elba, Napoleon visited Malmaison as a place of pilgrimage and stayed there a few days before being exiled to the island of Saint-Helena. In 1861, Napoleon III set up the first museum of the Consulate in Malmaison. It closed in 1870. After many trials and tribulations and breaking up of the estate in many smaller pieces, the chateau was donated to the State in 1904 by the philanthropist Daniel Osiris and the museum re-opened in 1906.

Good condition overall, half inch chip in paint in lower left portion of painting