Author(s):
hoffbauer, fédor (neuss, 13–10–1839 - paris, 28–10–1922), designer
type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, drawing
name(s): drawing
dimensions - artwork:
height: 20. 2cm
width: 31. 5cm
dimensions - museum master key:
height: 40cm
width: 50cm
marks, inscriptions, hallmarks:
signature of the performer - lower left, in watercolor: "t hoffbauer" and right monogram: "fh"
monogram = number - bottom right: "fh"
stamp - bottom right: "carnavalet". Iconographic description:
palais cardinal in 1634. Urban and rural landscapes, civil, medieval and renaissance architecture, characters in period costume. View taken between the rear and the large ditch of the enclosure being demolished. Courtyard and garden, arcades with terrace, central pavilion, wing, medieval mansions or with scaffolding. Views of the bell towers and pinnacles of the saint-honoré, saint-thomas and nicolas churches, roofs of the medieval and period louvre. Genre scenes: workers, lumberjacks, horses, trees. Historical commentary:
hoffbauer (cf. Card07924), ed. Original from 1875-1882, 10th delivery, texts by e. Fournier, lithograph by p. Benoist, pl. I. Reed. Tchou, paris, 1982, t. 2, p. 153-217. Genesis of the palace: card07935 (1645), card07942 (1794), card05822 (1880). Richelieu bought the hôtel d'angennes de rambouillet in 1624 and part of the hôtel d'armagnac in 1636 on the bons-enfants island (see the roche-guyot and mélusine hotels), to build his residence. For the successive stages of the expansion of the palais royal, cf. J. Hillairet (op. Cit. Card03333), t. 2, p. 216-224, and hoffbauer (op. Cit. ). Hoffbauer (op. Cit. ). See a view from 1670 engraved by hoffbauer, carg020784, etching signed (graphic arts cabinet of the carnavalet museum). Themes / subjects / places represented:
urban landscape
mode of acquisition: purchase
date of acquisition: 22–04–1894
institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris
inventory number: d. 7923. Unknown date
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