Title in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: Le Temple de l’Amour à la Malmaison

Year: 1923

Number: 313

Size:

States: 2

Title on Print: Le Temple de l’Amour à la Malmaison

Initials or Signature and Date in Plate: C. Armington 1923 l.r.

Planned Edition: 100

Total Number of Impressions: 100

Number in Pencil: 35/100

Signature in Pencil: Caroline Armington

Dedication:

Caroline Armington’s etching record book contains the following notes for this print:

1st state 3

1 for Mrs.   Xxxxx  xxxx

1 for Mrs.  xxxxxxxx

1 for Frank

1 for Mrs. Gladston not numbered

2nd, 2 epreuves d’essai

1 & 2 & 12 to 24

22, 23, 16 not numbered

33, 34, 35 & 36 numbered

Price in Caroline Armington’s etching record book: none.

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Comments:

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.

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.

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Mrs. Gladston.

In 1921 Mrs. Gladston ordered a bookplate from Caroline Armington (Ex Libris, Le Temple d'Amour à la Malmaison for Mrs. Gladston (Ex Libris Gladston) CA-253).

In 1923 she purchased one of each of the eight prints of La Malmaison done by Caroline Armington (CA-313 to CA-320 inclusive).

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Mr. and Mrs. Glaston had a property 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.

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