Mademoiselle RICHARD***, École française 1912 Napoleon I's small apartments at Fontainebleau Panel Signed lower right "MRichard"; inscribed on reverse "Petits appartements de Napoléon Ier à Fontainebleau par Melle Richard. 1912 Peintre officiel des monuments historique". 33 x 23.5 cm This panel depicts the Salon aux Oiseaux in the Emperor's Petits Appartements at the Château de Fontainebleau, a room adjoining his bedroom and reserved for the imperial secretaries. The woodwork is decorated with paintings by Snyders and Fyt depicting birds and birds of prey from the Versailles menagerie. The desk on the left is a mahogany cylinder desk by Jacob-Desmalter (1806).