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Le chateau du Pardo pres de Madrid.

Le chateau du Pardo pres de Madrid. T: II: Pl: 36

Bacler d'Albe ft. Lith: de G: Engelmann.
[Paris, 1820-22.]
Lithograph. Sheet 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾").
The Royal Palace of El Pardo near Madrid, Spain; now owned by the Spanish state, the palace began as a hunting lodge and became an alternative residence of the kings of Spain until Alfonso XII, who died in the palace in 1885. From 'Souvenirs pittoresques du Général Bacler d'Albe. Tome II, Campagne d'Espagne', a collection of landscapes by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824) drawn during the Napoleonic Wars. A soldier, cartographer and painter, Bacler d'Albe was a close companion of Napoléon Bonaparte from Toulon in 1793 until 1815. Napoleon's will tasked him with the education of his son Napoleon II.
BNF: FRBNF40343994.
[Ref: 19203]  £60.00


 

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