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Painted scale model of a cannon for camouflage studies
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Corbin (Designer)August 1914
Musée de l'Armée - Hôtel des Invalides
Paris, France
This scale model features the lines of a 120-type long De Bange cannon. It has been painted in tones intended to mask the artillery from enemy sight: this was the beginning of camouflage.
This object was created by Jean-Baptiste Eugène Corbin (1867–1952) in 1914 in Toul. Corbin was, along with Guirand de Scevola, one of the precursors of military camouflage.
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Details
- Title: Painted scale model of a cannon for camouflage studies
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Eugène Corbin (Designer)
- Date Created: August 1914
- Location Created: France
- Physical Dimensions: 0,17 (w) x 0,19 (h) x 0,46 (l) m
- Provenance: acquisition date: May 18, 2005 (purchase)
- Subject Keywords: Artillery, Model, World War I
- Type: Modèle réduit d'artillerie
- Medium: Bois, Fer, Peint
- Inventory: 2005.25.1
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