Mongin, Pierre Antoine (attr.). View of the Gardens and Facade of the Chateau de Malmaison, near Paris, with Napoleon and Josephine strolling in the foreground. After 1799.

Attributed to Antoine Pierre Mongin View of the Gardens and Facade of the Château de Malmaison, near Paris, with Napoleon and Josephine strolling in the foreground  Gouache over black chalk, after 1799 18 7/8" x 26 1/2" Exhibition history: “Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, March 12 - July 19, 2018 (exhibition label attached on the back of the frame)  Interestingly, according to wallpaper authority Ed Polk Douglas, Mongin was responsible for the design of some of the Zuber Company's most important scenics, often seen in American homes:  "Views of Switzerland(1804)"; "Hindustan(1807)"; "Views of Italy(1818)"; and ""French Gardens(1822)". Attributed to Antoine-Pierre Mongin (1761-1827) the present View of the Gardens and Facade of the Chateau de Malmaison is remarkable not only for its accomplished use of gouache paint- in itself a hard-to-master medium - but also for its subtle transcending the boundaries of landscape scenes. It was exhib