ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Second Empire Zouave: Original Study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. Inventory number 29409.
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ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Second Empire Zouave: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29409
Study depicting a Zouave seen from a three-quarter rear view, height 35 cm, width 26.5 cm.
Signed at the bottom right "L Rousselot / LR21."
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Studio of Lucien Rousselot, this type of study was displayed 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 uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. From the 1920s, he collaborated as an illustrator and uniform expert with the magazine Le Passepoil, directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some of the 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 significant work is considered to be the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for over half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire, the French Army, its uniforms, its armaments, its equipment which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldiers and horse mannequins that he had manufactured at a scale of 1/7, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).
Study depicting a Zouave seen from a three-quarter rear view, height 35 cm, width 26.5 cm.
Signed at the bottom right "L Rousselot / LR21."
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Studio of Lucien Rousselot, this type of study was displayed 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 uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. From the 1920s, he collaborated as an illustrator and uniform expert with the magazine Le Passepoil, directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some of the 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 significant work is considered to be the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for over half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire, the French Army, its uniforms, its armaments, its equipment which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldiers and horse mannequins that he had manufactured at a scale of 1/7, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).
Reference :
29409
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