A view of the Château de Vincennes from Montreuil, with the same terrasse in the foreground, is in the Louvre, G. Wildentsein, Louis Moreau, Paris, 1923, no. 27, pl. 13.
M. Coindet was Secrétaire Général to Necker, the Minister of Finance under Louis XVI until 1788, and father of Madame de Staël.