ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: original sketchbook in pencil, 20th century. Esquisse brand spiral drawing notebook, format 27 cm x 21 cm, signed on the back of the cover "L Rousselot".

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: original sketchbook in pencil, 20th century. Esquisse brand spiral drawing notebook, format 27 cm x 21 cm, signed on the back of the cover "L Rousselot". It has 36 sheets, one of which is detached. - 14 leaves represent riders. - 12 sheets represent pedestrians. - 5 study sheets. - 5 blank sheets. France. Twentieth century. Very good state. BIOGRAPHY: Lucien ROUSSELOT, born May 4, 1900, died May 4, 1992. Official painter of the army, knight of the Legion of Honor, officer of Arts and Letters, knight of the Academic Palms. Painter and illustrator of military subjects, during his career, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with the uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. He collaborated from the 1920s as an illustrator and uniformologist for the magazine Le Passepoil directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some of the series of cards devoted to the uniforms of the First Empire. Member of the La Sabretache society, he also collaborated for the society magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His work, considered major, is the series of 106 uniformological boards dealing, for more than half among them, French uniforms worn during the First Empire: The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and his boards he used mannequins poseable miniature soldiers and horses he had made in 1/7th scale, complete with accessories. He is buried in Marles-en-Brie (Seine et Marne).