A watercolour showing a view from a balcony at the Château de Saint-Cloud. After RCIN 980029.cw. Gates are shown between tall buildings. A group of Guardsmen are shown in the foreground to the left, with a further lone guard shown to the right. Trees are shown behind the gates, with a crowd of people below. Inscribed lower right: Aug: 1855. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their eldest two children stayed in the Château de Saint-Cloud as guests of Napoleon III from 18-27 August 1855. Queen Victoria describes in her journal entry of 19 August 1855 how she "sketched & rested, though but little, as there is always so much going on."