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Artist/Maker
Charles Constantine Hoffbauer
(American, born France, 1875 – 1957)
Date1935-1938
MediumWatercolor collage
DimensionsOverall: 16.8 x 24.4 cm (6 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Frame: 41.4 x 46.4 cm (16 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object numberINV.804
On view
DescriptionThis composition might have been part of a large group of preparatory works and drafts depicting Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia. Hoffbauer drew thousands of sketches and created 120 tempera paintings of this subject that he then presented to Walt Disney with the proposal of doing a historical animated cartoon. He titled the collective series “Napoleon’s Russian Campaign.” Disney was impressed but did not think the content aligned with his current work. Disney is quoted as saying “Mr. Hoffbauer, I’ll never be the artist you are, but…I deal in whimsy.”
Collections
Additional Details
Signature
Recto, lower left corner (estate stamp): "C. Hoffbauer"
Inscribed
Verso, bottom: [tag from Barbosa's Frames]
J. Hauser
Date: 1908-1914
Medium: Photographic postcard
Object number: S2018.2.1104
J. Hauser
Date: 1908-1914
Medium: Photographic postcard
Object number: S2018.2.1107
Dr. Francesco Antommarchi
Date: modeled 1821, cast 1833
Medium: Bronze
Object number: INV.417
G. Bouchetal
Date: 1910-1920
Medium: Photographic postcard
Object number: S2018.2.1106
Eugène Atget
Date: c. 1910, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.11
[Napoleon] Sarony Studio, New York
Date: c. 1871
Medium: Albumen print, mounted as a cabinet card
Object number: 2012.4.2
G. Bouchetal
Date: 1910-1920
Medium: Photographic postcard
Object number: S2018.2.1105
Walker Evans
Date: 1935, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2005.2.1
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: 1941-45 (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2013.5.10
Mel Bochner
Date: 1990
Medium: Screenprint
Object number: 2003.12.1.4