Description
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides details for a prospective comic book on Napoleon Bonaparte. Never completed, the book was set to illustrate the general’s entry into Venice. Thus, it would address two of Neiman’s foremost interests: Venice and Napoleon. Although there is much documentation left by the artist about these subjects, there is very little writing concerning the nature of this interest. That said, this record is of special value, not because it discloses this unknown, but because the note does not address the expected subjects of power and military conquest one might associate with the topics of Venice and Napoleon. Instead, the note reveals Neiman's fascination with the setting's material culture of the scene, i.e. luxury furnishing.