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CA-253 Le Temple d'Amour à la Malmaison for Mrs. Gladston
Ex Libris - Gladston
Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: Ex Libris, Le Temple d'Amour à la Malmaison for Mrs. Gladston
Year: 1921
Number: 253
Size: 13.25 x 9 cm
States: 2
Title on Print: Ex Libris Gladston
Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: CHA 1921
Planned Edition: Unknown, not mentioned.
Total Number of Impressions: Unknown, not mentioned.
Number in Pencil: not numbered
One with ‘’State before letters ‘’ex libris’’’’ "For my dear Frank from Carrie"
One with dedication "For my dear Frank from c.a."
Signatures in Pencil: State 1: Caroline Armington and State 2: Caroline H. Armington
Dedications:
One "For my dear Frank from Carrie"
One "For my dear Frank from c.a."
Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:
Address ''The Manor'', Reuil, Parc de la Malmaison.
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PAMA
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Comments:
Two states have been found. State 1 before letters ‘’Ex Libris’’ were added and state 2 with ‘’Ex Libris’’ etched in plate.
Mrs. Gladston, ''The Manor'', Reuil, Parc de la Malmaison.
‘’The Manor’’ was the property of Mr. and Mrs. Glaston in the Parc de la Malmaison.
Alfred Edmond GLADSTON. Born January 14, 1851 in London, United Kingdom. Deceased June 8, 1929 in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile de France, aged 78 years old.
He was a wholesale merchant.
He married Dora Lucille MANASSE on March 5, 1890 in Paris 9ème arrondissement,
Mrs. Gladston born Dora Lucille MANASSE. Born May 9, 1866 in Chicago, U.S.A. Deceased April 13, 1934 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, aged 67 years old.
The Parc de la Malmaison was divided into lots to be sold to private owners starting in 1877.
Following the Franco-Prussian War and the collapse of the Second French Empire, the heavily damaged estate (the Empress Joséphine’s original 726-hectare estate) was sold at auction by the French state to a commercial goods merchant. This merchant systematically subdivided and sold off the massive historic parkland for private residential development.
Today, the modern residential community built on these divided lots remains an exclusive, gated neighborhood known as the Parc de la Malmaison.
Le Temple de l'Amour (Temple of Love) at Malmaison is a historic 19th-century garden folly commissioned by Empress Joséphine Bonaparte to ornament the English-style landscaped park of her private estate, the Château de Malmaison. While the historic estate was gradually sold off and divided into parcels over the centuries, the temple now stands on private property in the Parc de la Malmaison.
A brochure about the World War II shows photos of the property with the legend:‘’The property called ‘’le Manoir’’ which belonged to an Englishman becomes the Soldatenheim.( German soldier's home)’’.
Mrs. Gladston also purchased one of each of the eight prints that Caroline Armington made in 1923 of La Malmaison (CA-313 to CA-320 inclusive).