ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard in campaign dress from the First Empire: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. Inventory number: 29406.
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ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard in campaign uniform First Empire: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29406
Study depicting a Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard in three-quarter view, H at sight 22 cm, width at sight 14.5 cm. Presented in a wooden frame, H 25.5 cm, width 18.5 cm.
Signed lower right "LR".
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Lucien Rousselot's workshop, this type of study was exhibited in the painting studio, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
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 Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide 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 series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also collaborated for the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His considered major work is the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for more than half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire, The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment that he created from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse mannequins that he had made on a 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).
Study depicting a Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard in three-quarter view, H at sight 22 cm, width at sight 14.5 cm. Presented in a wooden frame, H 25.5 cm, width 18.5 cm.
Signed lower right "LR".
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Lucien Rousselot's workshop, this type of study was exhibited in the painting studio, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
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 Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide 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 series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also collaborated for the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His considered major work is the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for more than half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire, The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment that he created from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse mannequins that he had made on a 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).
Reference :
29406
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