Similar plate with a slightly different view of Le Palais de St Cloud – a palace and gardens on Seine River just outside of Paris.
Château de Saint-Cloud was built on a site overlooking the Seine at Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine, about 5 kilometres (3 miles) west of Paris. The gardens and the estate is now known as the Parc de Saint-Cloud.
The château was expanded by Philippe I, Duke of Orléans in the 17th century and by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France after King Louis XVI purchased the palace for her in 1785. In the 19th century it was used by Napoleon Bonaparte, by the royal family during the Bourbon Restoration, by Louis Philippe d’Orléans, and by Napoleon III. The palace was burned down in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and its walls were demolished in 1891.