ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: 4th Regiment First Empire Cuirassier: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29410

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Cuirassier of the 4th Regiment of the First French Empire: Original Study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29410

Study depicting a Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard in three-quarter view, height 25 cm, width 18 cm. Not signed.

France.
20th century.
Good condition, two cracks on the left side.

PROVENANCE:
Workshop of Lucien Rousselot, this type of study was exhibited in the painting studio at 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 the Academic Palms. Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an extensive iconography dealing with the uniforms worn in 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 uniform expert 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 French Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the society's journal, Le Carnet de la Sabretache, until the 1990s. His major work is considered to be the series of 106 uniformological plates dealing, for more than half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First French Empire. The French Army, its uniforms, its weapons, its equipment that he created from 1943 to 1970. For his paintings and plates, he used articulated mannequins of soldiers and miniature horses that he had made in a 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles-en-Brie (Seine et Marne).