ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Hussar of the 9th Regiment of the First Empire: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. Inventory number: 29404.

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Hussar of the 9th Regiment First Empire: Original Study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29404

Study representing a hussar from the 9th regiment in three-quarter view, height at sight 27 cm, width at sight 17 cm. Presented in a wooden frame, height 30.5 cm, width 20 cm.
Signed lower right "LR."

France.
20th century.
Very good condition.

PROVENANCE:
Workshop of Lucien Rousselot, this type of study was exhibited in the painting studio, 4 Rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

BIOGRAPHY:
Lucien ROUSSELOT, born on May 4, 1900, died on May 4, 1992. Official painter of the army, knight of the Legion of Honor, officer of Arts and Letters, knight of Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with the uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide period ranging from the 16th century to the late 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 series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His major work is considered the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for over half of them, with the French uniforms worn during the First Empire, The French Army, its uniforms, its weapons, its equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated mannequins of soldiers and miniature horses that he had made on a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).